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diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml index 4fd96ee87e..32b18cc8fc 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml +++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/IntroSMB.sgml @@ -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> |