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CIFS

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CIFS

(Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. It stems back to the 1996/97 time frame when Microsoft submitted CIFS to the IETF, but that draft has expired. See file sharing protocol, SMB and Samba.

From Mac to Windows
This Macintosh dialog was displayed when trying to connect from the Mac to a Windows machine on the network. The SMB/CIFS nomenclature was later dropped in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to hide the jargon.

CIFS - Common Internet File System


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According to Joe Skorupa, Principal Analyst at Gartner, "Accelerating Exchange, CIFS, and web application performance as part of a broad-based architecture for application acceleration removes a major obstacle to server centralization projects.
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All major file sharing protocols, including NFS (Network Filesystem for Unix/Linux environments), CIFS (Common Internet Filesystem for Windows environments), and IPX/SPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange for Novell environments) were designed for LAN environments where clients and servers were located in the same building or campus.
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Windows users can map a Windows network drive via CIFS (the CAStor Cluster looks like a Windows file system).
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