[ale] NFS gets a friend ;-)

[R I Feigenblatt]

"SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 13, 1996 - Today Data General Corp.,
Digital Equipment Corp., Intel Corp., Intergraph Corp.,
Network Appliance Inc. and a growing number of other companies
joined with Microsoft Corp. to announce support for a remote
collaborative file-sharing technology called the
Common Internet File System (CIFS) based on standards already
used by millions of PCs on corporate intranets..."

"The proposed Common Internet File System protocol runs over
TCP/IP and is an enhanced version of the open, cross-platform
protocol for distributed file sharing called Server Message
Block (SMB)... SMB is also the featured file and print sharing
protocol of Samba, a popular freeware network file system
available for LINUX and many UNIX platforms... (It) has been
enhanced over previous versions of the SMB protocol in ways
that make it well suited for use on the Internet. CIFS, for
example, supports the Internet's Domain Name Service (DNS)
for address resolution. The protocol runs optimally over
slow-speed dial-up lines..."

Excerpts from:
http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1996/jun96/cifs2pr.htm