If you are working on a small to medium entreprise network, you probably have dozens of drives and printers that need to be shared. Besides the NFS protocol, there are plenty of other network protocols that can be used in order to share resources over a network. The CIFS, short for Common Internet File System, is a network filesystem protocol used to share resources among multiple hosts, sharing the same operating system or not. The CIFS, also known as the SMB protocol, is implemented by one popular tool : the Samba server.

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