[Samba] terminology: what is cifs and smb?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 14:17 -0500, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2012/06/06/windows-server-2012-which-version-of-the-smb-protocol-smb-1-0-smb-2-0-smb-2-1-or-smb-3-0-you-are-using-on-your-file-server.aspx
> 
> Many samba devs call smb3 smb 2.2 so those are basically the same. Mount.cifs is kernel/distro specific since it calls the kernel smb/cifs mounting routines. For example the Rhel5/6 kernel and mount.cifs can only mount smb v1.

The only issue with this is that it follows the Microsoft rewriting of
history whereby somehow CIFS was in use before SMB, when independent
observers find the terms reversed.  For example,
http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/Book.html

Anyway, SMB and CIFS are used interchangeably in the industry, and
SMB2/3 are just newer versions thereof (drastically reworked). 

Andrew Bartlett

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