On 3/12/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Samba is a service that allows you to PUBLISH shares for other computers to mount. smbfs and cifs are file systems that allow your Linux box to MOUNT a share published by a samab server or a windows box. (perhaps to do a backup or some such)
ahh .. ok, perfect. So the appropriate comparison is NOT samba vs cifs, but rather smbfs vs cifs. Both are client protocols/virtual file system implementations. So, from google reading, cifs was apparently microsofts addition to the original SMB file system spec ... and now, it is a somewhat newer vfs that can exist along side of or instead of smbfs. Theoretically it offers, newer/better/fancier services/access to remote SAMBA provided storage. About right? Thanx John! Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
