CIFS looks to be purely a marketing move by M$ to try to push SMB again
as a "standard" protocol. Unfortunately, M$ has no experience nor
inclination to produce secure products and SMB itself is neither
very secure, nor very efficient when used over TCP.
I think M$ is just trying to counter Sun's Public NFS announcement and
will not really push this unless they see significant interest. One
thing to remember, though; this is the same protocol all the M$ products
use, so you will be opening up ALL your PC's (esp. NT and Win95) to attack.
John Hall
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Disclaimer: Four score and seven years ago..... Uh what was the question??
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