Re: Moving from smbfs to cifs

From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt_at_dlr.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:54:42 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Robert Watson wrote:

RW>
RW>On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Antony Mawer wrote:
RW>
RW>> > I stumbled across patches available by R. Imura which are a work todays
RW>> > adding Unicode support to smbfs, and from what I gather are derived from
RW>> > changes in Darwin (Mac OS X) smbfs:
RW>> > 
RW>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/
RW>> > 
RW>> > 
RW>> > There are potentially other improvements available from the Darwin SMBFS
RW>> > implementation, available here:
RW>> > 
RW>> > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.2/
RW>> > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/smb-348.1.tar.gz
RW>> 
RW>> Probably another reference worth looking at:
RW>> 
RW>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/
RW>
RW>Oh, interesting -- I didn't realize that OpenSolaris had picked up our smbfs
RW>implementation also.  I spent some time about six months ago comparing the
RW>FreeBSD and FreeBSD-derived Mac OS X implementations of smbfs, and the
RW>differences were almost all syntactic.  In particular, their mbuf interfaces
RW>have all been renamed as part of the KPI work; they have also added some
RW>crypto/kerberos parts that we don't have.  It would be interesting to do a
RW>similar comparison of with the OpenSolaris version.

The Kerberos support would be a big win... I remember that I had a look at 
the code, but I have not clue with Kerberos programming so I gave up very 
fast :-(

harti
Received on Wed Jun 11 2008 - 13:54:45 UTC

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