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Date:      Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:27:04 -0700
From:      "Darren Spruell" <phatbuckett@gmail.com>
To:        "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Andy Christianson <achristianson@orases.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smbfs CIFS
Message-ID:  <839aec700803211627r11dbc1c1ic699eb8ddf697e1f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080320204047.X47860@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> isn't SMB and CIFS the same?

Superficially, although there are differences in the protocols. CIFS
descended from the original SMB specification and adds to it.

Hence, why e.g. in Linux you find separate module support for cifs and smbfs.

-- 
Darren Spruell
phatbuckett@gmail.com



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