Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:54:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> Subject: Re: Moving from smbfs to cifs Message-ID: <20080611174933.C66190@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <20080611163433.H40102@fledge.watson.org> References: <7d6fde3d0806091102k62637099qbaa73ca4d38ff64c@mail.gmail.com> <e7db6d980806091319n1caef691k2b0dbf295d796311@mail.gmail.com> <484DB796.4030204@mawer.org> <20080611022502.3d6c01d5.stas@FreeBSD.org> <484F5726.9050300@mawer.org> <484F6999.4080001@mawer.org> <20080611163433.H40102@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Robert Watson wrote: RW> RW>On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Antony Mawer wrote: RW> RW>> > I stumbled across patches available by R. Imura which are a work todays RW>> > adding Unicode support to smbfs, and from what I gather are derived from RW>> > changes in Darwin (Mac OS X) smbfs: RW>> > RW>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ RW>> > RW>> > RW>> > There are potentially other improvements available from the Darwin SMBFS RW>> > implementation, available here: RW>> > RW>> > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.2/ RW>> > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/smb-348.1.tar.gz RW>> RW>> Probably another reference worth looking at: RW>> RW>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/ RW> RW>Oh, interesting -- I didn't realize that OpenSolaris had picked up our smbfs RW>implementation also. I spent some time about six months ago comparing the RW>FreeBSD and FreeBSD-derived Mac OS X implementations of smbfs, and the RW>differences were almost all syntactic. In particular, their mbuf interfaces RW>have all been renamed as part of the KPI work; they have also added some RW>crypto/kerberos parts that we don't have. It would be interesting to do a RW>similar comparison of with the OpenSolaris version. The Kerberos support would be a big win... I remember that I had a look at the code, but I have not clue with Kerberos programming so I gave up very fast :-( harti
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