Samba vs. Cifs

Andrew Bartlett
2002-01-17T19:23:04Z

Manureet Brar wrote:
>
> what are the other advantages of SAMBA over CIFS besides the following:
>
> 1. Unix environment can talk to windows
> 2. better security
> 3. Free
>
> Please advise...

What is CIFS?  I know of no product by that name.  Samba does however
implement a protocol called 'SMB' which is also known as
'CIFS'....

Andrew Bartlett

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