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1. Project: CIFS client for Solaris
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      1. Alpha 1 CIFS Client
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      4. Beta 2 CIFS Client
      5. Beta 3 CIFS Client
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   10. Developers' Tips and Tools

OpenSolaris Project: CIFS client for Solaris

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Introduction

The CIFS protocol (a.k.a. SMB) is the natural file sharing protocol on Microsoft Windows machines, and is implemented by Samba on UNIX/Linux. This project will deliver a standard Solaris virtual file system that implements a CIFS client, which provides access to files and directories on CIFS servers. When using the CIFS client, users can mount remote CIFS server shares on their Solaris system to get read-write access with ordinary Unix applications. See the Solaris CIFS Client Overview presentation for more information.

The Solaris smbfs implementation is a port from the Darwin smbfs implementation, which is Apple Computer's BSD variant used in Mac OS X.

This product includes software developed by Boris Popov.

Status

Phase 1 has been integrated into Nevada build 84. See the announcement and "heads up" pages for more details.

Work is underway on Phase 2 features.

Code Access

See the Developers' Tips and Tools page.

Related Projects

Solaris CIFS Server

Winchester

Useful Links

The Microsoft Windows Protocols on MSDN

The genunix wiki – search for CIFS

Announcements

14 Feb 2008	CIFS Client integrated into Nevada
20 Dec 2007	CIFS Client Beta 3 available
30 Nov 2007	CIFS Client Beta 2 available
09 Nov 2007	CIFS Client Beta 1 available
21 Aug 2007	CIFS Client Alpha 2 available