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Chapter 21, The Network File System, covers the most popular system for sharing files among UNIX and Linux systems. However, UNIX systems also need to share files with systems, such as Windows, that don’t natively support NFS. Enter SMB.
In the early 1980s, Barry Feigenbaum created the BAF protocol to afford shared network access to files and resources. Before release, the name was changed from the author’s initials to Server Message Block (SMB). The protocol was rapidly embraced by Microsoft and the PC community because it gave “just like local” access to files on remote systems.
In 1996, a version called the Common ...
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