From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] Re TO_DO From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077727650.19238.211.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:47:30 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f553d692-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I am crawling up the (grubby) learning curve of CIFS > with a view to re-writing/fixing/updating a CIFS client > I have from the labs. Good luck:-(. > As supplied it nearly works, supporting Unicode and long > filenames but no user/group names or meaningfull file modes. Wow! I'm impressed! > The major problem is still the sketchy docco - though this > has improved, there is still no single "protocol spec". Pragmatically, you don't care about CIFS or some random document: what you care about "can it connect to Win95/98/NT/ME/2K/XP/..."? samba's smbd has a bucketload (i.e. ~~10) options to control exactly which permutation of SMB/CIFS it supports, which is very little help. IM_H_O, we need a "which particular set of braindamage?" enumeration somewhere in all SMB clients and servers. Cheers, Dave.