Article 33568 of dec.notes.networking.internet_tools: Title: Common Internet File System (CIFS) Reply Title: (none) 239 pages seems a little excessive for a notes file, especially for something that will change lots before it's finished. I've extracted the original to ftp://plugh.ibg.ljo.dec.com/pub/draft-heizer-cifs-v1-spec-00.txt although anyone wanting to go to the source (or who cares about having the latest draft) can see it at: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-heizer-cifs-v1-spec-00.txt or substitute your favorite location from this list... ftp.is.co.za (Africa) nic.nordu.net (Europe) munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim) ds.internic.net (US East Coast) ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast) I've left the status and abstract below. j. Notefile: LJSRV2::INTERNET_TOOLS Note: 3735.7 Author: NWD002::BINGHAM_JO Topic: Common Internet File System (CIFS) Title: draft-heizer-cifs-v1-spec-00.txt June 13, 1996 Date: 20-JUN-1996 18:44 Lines: 14116 Network Working Group I. Heizer Request for Comments: DRAFT P. Leach Category: Informational D. Perry Title: draft-heizer-cifs-v1-spec-00.txt Microsoft June 13, 1996 Common Internet File System Protocol (CIFS/1.0) Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or made obsolete by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress". To learn the current status of any Internet-Draft, please check the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), nic.nordu.net (Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim), ds.internic.net (US East Coast), or ftp.isi.edu (US West Coast). Distribution of this document is unlimited. Please send comments to the authors at . Abstract This document describes the CIFS file sharing protocol. Client systems use this protocol to request file and print services from server systems over a network. It is based on the Server Message Block protocol widely in use by personal computers and workstations running a wide variety of operating systems. Heizer, et al expires December 1996 [Page 1]