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CIFS? Really?CIFS? Really?Posted Feb 8, 2007 17:59 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)In reply to: CIFS? Really? by madscientist Parent article: Why a secret patent deal won't help Linux/Windows (LinuxWorld) CIFS was the name for SMB that Microsoft coined in the late 1990s when they wanted to make it into a standard. The proposed standard does have permissions and symlinks in it, so in a properly set up Linux client/Samba server setup you should be able to do the stuff that works now for you with NFS, with the extra bonus of more straightforward locking. The linux-cifs-client mailing list seems to have discussions of issues with mounting SMB/CIFS shares from different kinds of servers.
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CIFS? Really? Posted Feb 8, 2007 18:11 UTC (Thu) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] I suppose my problem is that the server is NOT Samba. It's Windows... so then the problem is in the underlying NTFS filesystem, not CIFS/SMB itself.
Good to know; thanks!
CIFS? Really? Posted Feb 9, 2007 0:50 UTC (Fri) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link] Windows (on NTFS) has both share-level and filesystem level access controls. If they differ, it will choose its actions based on the more restrictive of the two. Also, the filesystem ACLs are by default inherited from the next higher level in the tree. You may have to explicitly break the inheritance in some cases.
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