CIFS Spec and Resources

Updated: July 2, 1998

(Please note that the links marked with the icon below point to servers that are not under Microsoft's control. Please read Microsoft's official statement regarding other servers.)

The current IETF CIFS Internet-Draft document is available on ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-cifs-v1-spec-01.txt . This document is also available in downloadable Word format (zipped, 136K).

For more information on CIFS and Server Message Block (SMB), see the following links elsewhere on, and outside, the Microsoft site:

• CIFS Internet mailing list: To subscribe, see the Mailing Lists page.
• Microsoft FTP site for older Microsoft SMB specs
• Microsoft FTP site for older Microsoft LAN Manager clients
• Samba download site for tcpdump-smb "sniffer"
• Usenet comp.protocols.smb newsgroup
• Protocols for X/Open PC Interworking: SMB, Version 2
• X/Open IPC Mechanisms for SMB
• CIFS Resource Center

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