[ug-bosug] Seamless CIFS integration in OpenSolaris

[Siddharth Karnik]

On 11/3/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>    Recently support for Common Internet Filesystem or CIFS was
> introduced into OpenSolaris. This make seamless interoperability
> with Windows servers and clients possible. That is OpenSolaris
> now has kernel support for CIFS/SMB and can act both as a server
> and a client.
>
> As opposed to Samba this change is a very fundamental change
> introduced into the OS at the kernel level. With support for a
> variety of things like integrated support for Windows Credentials
> which Samba does not yet support. Also since it is an in-kernel
> implementation performance should also be much better.
>
> There is a nice blog post by the CIFS architect:
> http://blogs.sun.com/amw/entry/cifs_in_solaris
>
> Highly recommended reading. Good insights into how large and
> complex projects evolve.

Cool! Any idea when this will find its way into a Nevada build?



>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
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