- Author: Christopher Hertel
- Format: archived PDF
- Price: free
The first developer’s guide to Microsoft’s Internet/Intranet file sharing standard.
For years, developers and administrators have struggled to understand CIFS, Microsoft’s poorly documented standard for Internet file sharing. Finally, there is an authoritative, cross-platform guide to CIFS capabilities and behavior. Implementing CIFS not only delivers the priceless knowledge of a Samba Team member dedicated to investigating the inner workings of CIFS, it also identifies and describes crucial specifications and supporting documents.
Chapters include:
- A Short Bio of NetBIOS
- Speaking NetBIOS
- The Basics of NBT Implementation
- The Name Service in Detail
- The Datagram Service in Detail
- The Session Service in Detail
- Where It All Went Wrong
- A Little Background on SMB
- An Introductory Tour of SMB
- First Contact: Reaching the Server
- SMB in Its Natural Habitat
- The SMB Header in Detail
- Protocol Negotiation
- Session Setup
- Authentication
- Building Your SMB Vocabulary
- The Remaining Oddities
- That Just about Wraps Things Up for SMB
- A Beautiful Day in the Network Neighborhood
- Meet the Neighbors
- Infrastructure: The Mailslot and Named Pipe Abstractions
- The Talk on the Street
- The Better Browser Bureau
- Samba Browse Service Enhancement
- It Can’t Happen Here
- At Home in the Network Neighborhood
- Making a Good Cup of Tea
- Known NetBIOS Suffix Values
- The SMB URL
- SNIA CIFS Technical Reference
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