Status of CIFS?

[William Hooper]

Mike Jang said:
> Folks,
>
> On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 00:42, William Hooper wrote:
>> I've got to messing around with CIFS support on FC2T3 and seem to be
>> having authentication issues (mount error 13 = Permission denied), even
>> against localhost.  I've found a bug about it (119766), but it digresses
>> into issues with smbfs.  Is smbfs going to be the preferred method?
>
> First, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, maybe
> a Samba newsgroup would be more helpful. From what I've seen, longer
> term, Microsoft may be moving away from CIFS.

You are mistaken.  CIFS is the replacement for SMB.

> They're working on WinFS,

WinFS is a file system, not a network protocol.

-- 
William Hooper