Jeff Layton wrote: : : > Timeouts: > ========= > It's tempting to think of SMB as being very similar to NFS/RPC, but > when it comes to low-level transport, there are significant > differences. ONC-RPC was designed for connectionless transports and has > the concept of a retransmission. SMB however does not -- it was > originally layered on NetBIOS sessions and so has always been assumed > to run on a connection-based transport. ...with the exception of the Direct Hosted IPX transport. IPX is connectionless. In order to accommodate this connectionless transport, SMB was actually modified (slightly). That may seem to be in the "who cares" category, since those old transports are essentially dead (much more dead than NBT, or even NBF). Unfortunately, the code to handle the old transports is still there in Windows, so there are behaviors -- things like the timeouts you're talking about and the weird VC=0 shutdown behvior -- that exist because of these old disused transports. Ugh. Eh? Chris -)----- -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- crh@xxxxxxxxxxxx OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- crh@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
