From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 15:54:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48886106568E; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:54:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Hartmut.Brandt@dlr.de) Received: from smtp-1.dlr.de (smtp-1.dlr.de [195.37.61.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60F78FC28; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:54:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Hartmut.Brandt@dlr.de) Received: from beagle.kn.op.dlr.de ([129.247.178.136]) by smtp-1.dlr.de over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:54:42 +0200 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:54:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt X-X-Sender: brandt_h@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: <20080611163433.H40102@fledge.watson.org> Message-ID: <20080611174933.C66190@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <7d6fde3d0806091102k62637099qbaa73ca4d38ff64c@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> X-OpenPGP-Key: harti@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jun 2008 15:54:42.0756 (UTC) FILETIME=[76912840:01C8CBDB] Cc: Stanislav Sedov , Garrett Cooper , current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm , Antony Mawer Subject: Re: Moving from smbfs to cifs X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Harti Brandt List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:54:45 -0000 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