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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Keith Bostic: MS Press Release - Common Internet File System (CIFS)
To: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:05:20 -0700 (MST)
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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
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