0.6 Acknowledgements and Thanks

The investigation of CIFS is a forensic art. This book is an attempt to coalesce the knowledge gathered by the CIFS community and present it in a useful form. My thanks go to the Samba Team, particularly Andrew Tridgell who started the Samba project and suggested that I start the jCIFS project. Thanks are also due to the jCIFS Team for raisingand often answeringso many good questions, and particularly to Michael B. Allen for churning out so much working code.

Acknowledgements also go to the folks on the Samba-Technical mailing list, the Samba-TNG mailing list, Microsoft's CIFS mailing list, and the folks at Microsoft who were able to provide insights into the workings of CIFS.

Writing documentation of this sort is a lengthy and annoying process. Special thanks go to the believers : Rachel, Aled, and Amalia; and also to the four-legs: Neko, Marika, Bran, and Maddie.

Additional notes of praise and recognition (in no particular order) to David Hirsch, Jeanne Dzurenko, Judy Diebel, Paul Nelis, Virginia Norton, Dave Farmer, John Ladwig, Susan Levy Haskell, Tim Howling, Olaf Barthel, Amy Gavel, Stephanie Cohen, Andrew Bartlett, Prairie Barnes, Chris Yerkes, James Carey, and Tom Barron.

The majority of the diagrams in this book were produced using the Dia diagram editor. The document was originally created as 100% hand-crafted and W3C- validated HTML using a simple text editor. CVS was used for document source management.

0.6.1 The Book

Thanks to Mark Taub for believing that I could turn my online ramblings into an honest-to-goodness book, and to Jill Harry for being "the boss" and gently but firmly guiding me through the process. Thanks also to Bruce Perens for including my book as part of his series, and to all the folks at Prentice Hall who helped to make this dream a reality.

The book was raked over the coals for technical correctness by Andrew Bartlett and Jerry Carter, both of the Samba Team and both nearly as pedantic as I am. They deserve a lot of credit for the good stuff that is contained herein (the bugs are my fault).

The original HTML source was skillfully converted to publisher-ready form by Alina Kirsanova, and then carefully copy-edited by Dmitry Kirsanov. They did excellent work. Any errors in grammar or formatting which remain are probably the result of my being a prima donna and insisting on having my own way.