The Samba team isn't expecting to release Samba 4 until the first half of 2011 (optimistically) but work on support for Microsoft's SMB2 -- and older SMB/CIFS -- has moved ahead quite nicely. Samba ...

Common Internet File System (CIFS), also known as Server Message Block (SMB), is a platform-neutral application-layer network protocol. The CIFS protocol is commonly used for remote file access and ...

One Samba contributor is working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS documentation. A recent post on the Samba team blog indicates that code contributor Chris Hertel and his Ubiqx consulting ...

I have two NFS servers and two CIFS servers, all four with a lustre backend. Users are running into problems that changes to files on one protocol are not visible on the other protocol. I have CTDB on ...

Common Internet File System is a remote file access protocol that forms the basis for Windows file sharing. CIFS performs poorly over high-latency WAN links because it’s chatty, meaning a large number ...

The company, which said earlier this week that it would also license its Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, will license the SMB file-sharing protocol later this summer, Microsoft spokesman ...

Systems administrators should get ready to fix a critical vulnerability on April 12 that affects the Windows and Samba implementations of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. The vulnerability was ...