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Re:Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years by pkaye on Sunday February 09, 2020 @07:45PM (#22285481)
CIFS is I think the protocol used on Windows and SAMBA.
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Re:Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years by jagger27 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @07:51PM (#22285507)
Yes, ish. CIFS is the protocol that came before SMB, but people still use the term to describe modern Windows SMB or Samba.
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Re:Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years by burfog on Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:22PM (#22285650)
SMB was first. CIFS is a rebranding that happened when Microsoft was forced to release documentation for the protocol.
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Re:Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years by derefr on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:36PM (#22285955)
Yes, but CIFS was a rebranding of SMB1; successive versions of SMB have just been called SMB. So first there was SMB, and then CIFS, and then (and now) it's all been just SMB. The only ones still using the term "CIFS" at this point are the Linux/Samba folks.
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Re:Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years by burfog on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:24PM (#22286202)
It's a case of running the Common Internet File System on top of the Server Message Block protocol.

SMB isn't just for filesystems. It is also used for printing, among other things. CIFS is the filesystem.

Outside of Linux/Samba folks, neither term is popular. Users say "Windows share" or "shared drive" or "network folder" or something like that.

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Re:Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years by blattimwind on Sunday February 09, 2020 @08:36PM (#22285698)
Don't see someone call SMB "modern" every day...
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