Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 08:15:42 -0700 From: "Jim Y. Li" <jim@whistle.com> To: julian@whistle.com, archie@whistle.com, calvin@whistle.com, bmann@whistle.com Subject: SAMBA Digest Archive - Current 1996: CIFS - Common Internet File Standard Message-ID: <31CD5F9E.BE2@whistle.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 > > * Next message: Jean Claude PETIOT: "memory allocation error" > * Previous message: Geoffrey Day: "Problem printing with > samba-1.9.15p8"http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/digest/1996/current/0456.html
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?31CD5F9E.BE2>