[ug-bosug] Seamless CIFS integration in OpenSolaris

[Moinak Ghosh]

Siddharth Karnik wrote:
> 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?
>   

   It is already in B77.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
>
>   
>> Regards,
>> Moinak.
>>
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