[texhax] What is an "smb:" link, why is \verb| ... | creating it, and how do I stop it?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat May 17 03:38:37 CEST 2014
On 2014-05-16 at 18:14:31 -0600, ghaverla wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2014 23:31:00 +0100
> Henry Law <news at lawshouse.org> wrote:
>
> > On 16/05/14 23:05, Douglas McKenna wrote:
> > > What does ``smb:'' mean?
>
> Windows NT had a network file system. I think the original name for it
> in M$ speak was SMB (Server Message Block). Open Source tried to work
> with that, and the project most known in this regard is Samba (note it
> has s m and b, in that order). I think M$ then renamed this to be
> CIFS.
No, SMB isn't a file system. It's a protocol just like NFS which
allows mounting remote file systems on a local machine.
CIFS is a file system like ext3, ext4. I assume that its sucsessor is
UDF, which is supported by most operatung systems nowadays.
Regards,
Reinhard
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