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From: Guy Van Sanden <guy.van.sanden@pandora.be>
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Subject: Re: Is CIFS available already on FreeBSD?
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Hello Anand

The protocol you are inquiring about is called SMB/CIFS.
Server Message Block/Common Internet File System.

The name in itself is very misleading, CIFS is not an Internet FS in any
way, but part of M$ file/print sharing implementation.

To answer your question, Samba is a fully functional SMB/CIFS server and
client.  
The client is provided as utilities like smbclient, smbmount.
On some systems you even get the option to use smbfs in fstab.

Kind regards

Guy


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