Well, I guess we know what we've gotta be compatible with now..
Subject: MS Press Release - Common Internet File System (CIFS)
Does this entire subject make anyone else ill?
yes, Sun :-)
Makes me ill. I know it doesn't support anything but connection-based
authentication tokens, doesn't support sliding window (even fixed window,
as in Novell's NCP "packetburst" beats the hell out of it), and will
in general turn the whole net into a transport for single packet
request/response.
Obviously, they needed some way to download their ActiveX controls
without dumping them on your machine, and this is it.