Re: Thoughts on Redhat 6.0

[Ilya Tsindlekht <ilyat@internet-zahav.net>]

On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 10:34:00PM +0200, JF Martinez wrote:
> SMB's security is trivial to break.  This is OK for an intranet were
> people are working for the same goal and in addition there is a boss
> who can retaliate in case an employee is misbehaving but it is very
> dangerous on the Internet.  That is why Microsoft itself does not try
> to push it for this task but it is trying to ready another protocol
> called CIFS.
My understanding is that CIFS is just another name of SMB, under which it was
sumbitted to IETF. (although, according to Samba people, some parts of SMB are
documented).