NFS or SMB on Windows Share

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Ben Mc picture Ben Mc · Dec 7, 2009 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

If I were to create a Windows shared folder, put a database file in that folder to be shared among multiple users of our client app, is that an NFS or SMB shared folder?

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Jim Mitchener picture Jim Mitchener · Dec 7, 2009

For the record it is now supposed to be referred to as CIFS (Common Internet File System). But yes, it is SMB.

Edit apparently with Windows 8 and Server 2012 we're back to SMB with SMB 3. Thanks, BenL

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