Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Being that SUN has a comprehensive agreement with Microsoft, and CIFS IIRC is an openstandard,
CIFS? An open standard? No way. Microsoft has never managed to publish anything complete enough for independent implementation, and has always felt free to change the implementation in Windows without bothering to tell anyone else. Part of the problem has been that there hadn't been any kind of spec within Microsoft for years, other than the code. Recent attempts to get a complete specification (e.g. SNIA) have been driven by other vendors, not Microsoft. For an open standard, I'd want a body to be able to recommend changes that Microsoft would actually implement, and that's never happened. > there is nothing stopping SUN from implementing a kosher > CDDL compatible version of SMB/CIFS. This part is true :-) Rob T _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
