Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:05:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: scanner@webspan.net, ejs@bfd.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Keith Bostic: MS Press Release - Common Internet File System (CIFS) Message-ID: <199606190205.TAA11811@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <11776.835135772@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 18, 96 03:09:32 pm
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> >> > Well, I guess we know what we've gotta be compatible with now.. > >> > >> >> Subject: MS Press Release - Common Internet File System (CIFS) > >Does this entire subject make anyone else ill? > > yes, Sun :-) Makes me ill. I know it doesn't support anything but connection-based authentication tokens, doesn't support sliding window (even fixed window, as in Novell's NCP "packetburst" beats the hell out of it), and will in general turn the whole net into a transport for single packet request/response. Obviously, they needed some way to download their ActiveX controls without dumping them on your machine, and this is it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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