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Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System
By Christopher  R.  Hertel
Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: August 11, 2003
ISBN	: 0-13-047116-X
Pages	: 672

"The book that Microsoft should have written, but didn't."
Jeremy Allison, Samba Team

"Your detailed explanations are clear and backed -up with source codeand the numerous bits of humor make a dry subject very enjoyable to read."
J.D. Lindemann, network engineer, Adaptec, Inc.

For years , developers and administrators have struggled to understand CIFS, Microsoft's poorly documented standard for Internet file sharing. Finally, there is an authoritative , cross-platform guide to CIFS capabilities and behavior. Implementing CIFS not only delivers the priceless knowledge of a Samba Team member dedicated to investigating the inner workings of CIFS, it also identifies and describes crucial specifications and supporting documents.

• Provides essential information for designing and debugging large Windows(R) and/or Samba networks

• Offers clear, in-depth introductions to Server Message Block (SMB), NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT), browser services, and authentication

• Drills down into the internals of CIFS, exposing its behavior on the wire and at the desktopand its strange quirks

• Presents illustrative code examples throughout

• Reflects years of work reviewing obscure documentation, packet traces, and sourcecode

• Includes the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference

Implementing CIFS will be indispensable to every developer who wants to provide CIFS compatibilityand every administrator or security specialist who needs an in-depth understanding of how it really works.