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Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File
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Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File
System by Christopher Hertel,
Christopher R. Hertel ISBN:
0-13-047116-X, 672 Pages,
August 2003 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.

CIFS is an important
protocol — indeed, in Windows networks
it could be considered as important as
TCP/IP, as almost all
communication between Windows machines can flow over it. It
provides file and print services, and, among other things, is
a carrier for Remote Procedure Call and
NT Domain services. - Provides
essential information for designing and debugging large
Windows and/
or Samba networks. -
Offers clear, in-depth introductions to Server
Message Block (SMB),
NetBIOS over TCP/
IP (NBT), browser
services, and authentication. - Drills down into the internals
of CIFS, exposing its behavior on the
wire and at the desktop — and its strange quirks. - Presents
illustrative code examples throughout. - Reflects years of
work reviewing obscure documentation, packet traces, and
sourcecode. - Includes the SNIA
CIFS Technical Reference

Implementing CIFS will
be indispensable to every developer who wants to provide
CIFS compatibility - and every administrator
or security specialist who needs an in-depth understanding of
how it really works.



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