Moving from smbfs to cifs

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Antony Mawer wrote:

>> I stumbled across patches available by R. Imura which are a work todays 
>> adding Unicode support to smbfs, and from what I gather are derived from 
>> changes in Darwin (Mac OS X) smbfs:
>> 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/
>> 
>> 
>> There are potentially other improvements available from the Darwin SMBFS 
>> implementation, available here:
>> 
>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.2/ 
>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/smb-348.1.tar.gz
>
> Probably another reference worth looking at:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/

Oh, interesting -- I didn't realize that OpenSolaris had picked up our smbfs 
implementation also.  I spent some time about six months ago comparing the 
FreeBSD and FreeBSD-derived Mac OS X implementations of smbfs, and the 
differences were almost all syntactic.  In particular, their mbuf interfaces 
have all been renamed as part of the KPI work; they have also added some 
crypto/kerberos parts that we don't have.  It would be interesting to do a 
similar comparison of with the OpenSolaris version.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge