CIFS and NFS are completely different networked filesystem protocols. The CIFS
protocol has been a Microsoft proprietary format for a very long time. The
only way that non-windows machines could access Windows was via Samba which was
a clean-room reverse engineered implementation of CIFS. Fortunately, that
situation has gotten better recently. Windows does not come with NFS support
though there are 3rd party programs that will provide that capability. There
is nothing wrong with a filesystem that has both CIFS and NFS sharing
protocols. This way you can benefit from machines that can support NFS
natively (Linux, Unix, Mac OS/X) while supporting Windows via the CIFS protocol.
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