ommon nternet ile ystem. The protocol formerly known as Server Message Block (SMB) and, before that, as the BAF protocol (after its original creator, Dr. Barry Feigenbaum). CIFS is a protocol for file and device sharing across a network. See also: SMB
Common Internet File System. A protocol and a corresponding API used by application programs to request higher level application services. CIFS was formerly known as SMB (Server Message Block).
CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a proposed standard protocol that lets programs make requests for files and services on remote computers on the Internet. CIFS uses the client/server programming model.
Common Internet File System (aka SMB) -- a protocol that allows a client workstation to perform transparent file access over a network to a Windows 95/98/NT server. Client file access calls are converted to CIFS protocol requests and are sent to the server over the network. The server receives the request, performs the actual filesystem operation, and sends a response back to the client.
See Common Internet File System (CIFS).
Common Internet File System. The name for Microsoft's version of a networked file system. See also Network File System (NFS), Windows NT File System (NTFS).
Common Internet File System, a specification for a file access protocol designed for the Internet.
Common Internet File System. A networking protocol used primarily by Windows computers to remotely access another computer's file systems. UNIX and Macintosh systems can also use this protocol.
Common Internet Filesystem. This is a protocol which enables computers to share their filesystems. It fulfills the same purpose as NFS (Sun's Network File System), but is much more chaotic and complex. CIFS is also known under the older name SMB (Server Message Block).
Common Internet File System. CIFS defines a standard remote file-system access protocol for use over the Internet, letting groups of users work together and share documents across the Internet or within their corporate intranets.
Common Internet File System - the latest version of SMB
This acronym means "Common Internet File System".