[Samba] RE: Samba and CIFS question

[Javid Abdul-AJAVID1]

SMB is properiety of whom
just curious how does samba team cope up with changes that microsoft makes
in their cifs.
do they put it out there in open as what they are using and what not

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:crh at ubiqx.mn.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:33 AM
To: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Samba and CIFS question


On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:20:03AM -0500, Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 wrote:
:
> > Is samba implments CIFS.

Yes, Samba is a CIFS implementation.

> > I thought CIFS is based on SMB

Yes, CIFS (Common Internet FileSystem) is Microsoft's marketing name for 
SMB.

> > am assuming SMB is opensource protocol

No.  SMB is poorly documented, randomly changed, overloaded, and 
proprietary.

> > Just wondering if am running samba 2.2.5 does it mean am running CIFS
> > also what version of CIFS?

Several versions of CIFS.  Samba supports several dialects (a dialect is a
named variation in the protocol...there are many unnamed variations as
well).

> > when i sniffing SMB packets which commands should i be looking at CIFS
or
> > SMB

A tool such as Ethereal will know how to decode the packets.

See also:  http://ubiqx/org/cifs/ for an introduction to the protocol and 
its annoyances.

Chris -)-----

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