[ILUG] cifs Fedora-8-xfce mounting CentOS5 Shares Problem Solved

[Conor Wynne]

On 12 Jan 2008, at 15:30, Frank Murphy wrote:

> Conor Wynne wrote:
>>
>> O
>> OK so, does this happen ONLY from FC or does it also happen on doze?
> Only from F8,  XP, Vista ok.
>> Q: Why use SMBFS for Linux clients anyway?
> Using cifs, don't know anything else, barely know cifs.
>

Its essentially the same thing, Server Message Block (Where SAMBA gets  
its name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block

Newer versions of the same stack -- different names and that about it.  
Think SMB1 and SMB2
Quote:
At around the time when Sun Microsystems announced WebNFS [1],  
Microsoft launched an initiative in 1996 to rename SMB to Common  
Internet File System (CIFS)

Regards,
Conor.