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fiddled the entry for jCIFS (thanks, John!).
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<title>Related Projects</title> <title>Related Projects</title>
<para> <para>
Currently, there are two projects that are directly related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS network There are currently two network filesystem client projects for Linux that are directly
client file systems for Linux, both available in the Linux kernel itself. related to Samba: SMBFS and CIFS VFS. These are both available in the Linux kernel itself.
</para> </para>
<itemizedlist> <itemizedlist>
@ -155,18 +155,14 @@ client file systems for Linux, both available in the Linux kernel itself.
</para></listitem> </para></listitem>
<listitem><para> <listitem><para>
CIFS (Common Internet File System) is the successor to SMB, and is actively being worked CIFS VFS (Common Internet File System Virtual File System) is the successor to SMBFS, and
on in the upcoming version of the Linux kernel. The intent of this module is to is being actively developed for the upcoming version of the Linux kernel. The intent of this module
provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (heirarchical is to provide advanced network file system functionality including support for dfs (heirarchical
name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock),
optional packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and optional optional packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and optional
Winbind (nsswitch) integration. Winbind (nsswitch) integration.
</para></listitem> </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
jCIFS (Java implementation of CIFS) is an active project headed by Chris Hertel.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist> </itemizedlist>
<para> <para>
@ -174,6 +170,12 @@ Again, it's important to note that these are implementations for client filesyst
nothing to do with acting as a file and print server for SMB/CIFS clients. nothing to do with acting as a file and print server for SMB/CIFS clients.
</para> </para>
<para>
There are other Open Source CIFS client implementations, such as the jCIFS project
(jcifs.samba.org) which provides an SMB client toolkit written in Java.
</para>
</sect1> </sect1>