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In my experience, cifs is the client side, smb[d] is the server side. On Linux, anyway. cifs has been in the kernel (supporting access to SMB shares, includin
by creeble 5y ago
In my experience, cifs is the client side, smb[d] is the server side.
On Linux, anyway. cifs has been in the kernel (supporting access to SMB shares, including through SMB 3.1), whereas the user-space samba has always been the only way to get SMB sharing (server-side).
edit: clarification