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Yikes!  I hope Andrew doesn't get "gagged" by MS!

-j


> CIFS - Common Internet File Standard
> 
> Andrew Tridgell (tridge@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au)
> Mon, 17 Jun 1996 18:01:43 +1000
> 
>    * Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
>    * Next message: Jean Claude PETIOT: "memory allocation error"
>    * Previous message: Geoffrey Day: "Problem printing with
>      samba-1.9.15p8"
> 
> As people have noticed Microsoft have announced a project to make SMB
> a "internet standard" called CIFS.
> 
> Microsoft approached me last week to ask if the Samba developers were
> interested in becoming a part of this project.
> 
> I think there is potentially enormous benefit in this so I said
> yes. Hopefully this means that myself and some other Samba developers
> will get a chance to have some input into the proposed standard. There
> are quite a few aspects of SMB/NBT that are less than ideal and need to
> be looked at.
> 
> I don't really know what the next step is, but I hope it will involve
> technical discussions between the various SMB vendors (and us!). I
> don't know how open these discussions will be.
> 
> The biggest immediate benefit for Samba will hopefully be some more
> complete SMB specs from Microsoft, which should help with some of the
> trickier bits of the protocol.
> 
> I'll let this list know if there are significant developments.
> 
> Cheers, Andrew
> 
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>      samba-1.9.15p8"http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/digest/1996/current/0456.html