SMB/CIFS for Microsoft-Style File Sharing
SMB/CIFS is a very different system than is NFS in many ways, but the basic goals and functionality in operation are similar. Because SMB/CIFS was designed for file sharing among Microsoft-style OSs, it supports the filesystem features that are common on DOS, Windows, and OS/2, but not the filesystem features used in UNIX-style OSs. Windows and OS/2 come with implementations of SMB/CIFS. The Samba package (http://www.samba.org/) is a widely available implementation of SMB/CIFS for UNIX-like OSs, and in fact it ships with many UNIX versions, including most Linux distributions. For DOS, check ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT for a two-floppy software package that provides an SMB/CIFS implementation ...
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