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@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@ http://www.samba.org). Optionally, you could just search mailing.unix.samba at
<title>Related Projects</title>
<para>
-Currently, there are two projects that are directly related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS network
-client file systems for Linux, both available in the Linux kernel itself.
+There are currently two network filesystem client projects for Linux that are directly
+related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS VFS. These are both available in the Linux kernel itself.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -155,18 +155,14 @@ client file systems for Linux, both available in the Linux kernel itself.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
- CIFS (Common Internet File System) is the successor to SMB, and is actively being worked
- on in the upcoming version of the Linux kernel. The intent of this module is to
- provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (heirarchical
+ CIFS VFS (Common Internet File System Virtual File System) is the successor to SMBFS, and
+ is being actively developed for the upcoming version of the Linux kernel. The intent of this module
+ is to provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (heirarchical
name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock),
optional packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and optional
Winbind (nsswitch) integration.
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- jCIFS (Java implementation of CIFS) is an active project headed by Chris Hertel.
- </para></listitem>
-
+ </para></listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
<para>
@@ -174,6 +170,12 @@ Again, it's important to note that these are implementations for client filesyst
nothing to do with acting as a file and print server for SMB/CIFS clients.
</para>
+<para>
+There are other Open Source CIFS client implementations, such as the jCIFS project
+(jcifs.samba.org) which provides an SMB client toolkit written in Java.
+</para>
+
+
</sect1>