[Samba] Re: forcing XP clients to use CIFS

Matt Seitz (matseitz) matseitz at cisco.com
Thu Aug 30 20:13:59 GMT 2007



"Andrew Bartlett" <abartlet at samba.org> wrote in message
news:<1188454373.22770.155.camel at naomi>...
>On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 21:48 +0200, Jax wrote:
>> I guess there is a registry value for it. As I noticed winxp try to
use 
>> smbfs first not cifs. In linux it's easier because you can choose
when 
>> you mount your shares.
>
>smbfs v cifsvfs is a matter of two implementations of the protocol
>client, that happen to exist in the Linux Kernel.  
>
>Windows XP only has one CIFS client, there is nothing to choose. 

Maybe Jax meant getting the Windows CIFS client to always use SMB Direct
Host (TCP port 445), instead of using NetBIOS/TCP (TCP port 139)?


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