On 12 Jan 2008, at 15:30, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Conor Wynne wrote:
>>>> O
>> OK so, does this happen ONLY from FC or does it also happen on doze?
> Only from F8, XP, Vista ok.
>> Q: Why use SMBFS for Linux clients anyway?
> Using cifs, don't know anything else, barely know cifs.
>
Its essentially the same thing, Server Message Block (Where SAMBA gets
its name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
Newer versions of the same stack -- different names and that about it.
Think SMB1 and SMB2
Quote:
At around the time when Sun Microsystems announced WebNFS [1],
Microsoft launched an initiative in 1996 to rename SMB to Common
Internet File System (CIFS)
Regards,
Conor.
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