COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM

  

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COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM

Specialty Definition: COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM

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Computing

Common Internet File System (CIFS) An Internet file system protocol, based on Microsoft's SMB. Microsoft has given CIFS to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an Internet Draft. CIFS is intended to complement existing protocols such as HTTP, FTP, and NFS. CIFS runs on top of TCP/IP and uses the Internet's Domain Name Service (DNS). It is optimised to support the slower speed dial-up connections common on the Internet. CIFS is more flexible than FTP. FTP operations are carried out on entire files whereas CIFS is aimed at routine data access and incorporates high-performance multi-user read and write operations, locking, and file-sharing semantics. CIFS is probably closest in functionality to NFS. NFS gives random access to files and directories, but is stateless. With CIFS, once a file is open, state about the current access to that file is stored on both the client and the server. This allows changes on the server side to be notified to the clients that are interested. Home (http://www.cifs.com/). What is CIFS? (http://www.cifs.com/whatcifs.html). CIFS: An Internet File System Protocol (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/cifs/default.asp). CIFS: A Common Internet File System, Paul Leach and Dan Perry (http://www.microsoft.com/Mind/1196/CIFS.htm). IETF Specification. CIFS version 1 (ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-cifs-v1-spec-01.txt). (1999-08-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM

Specialty definitions using "COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM": CIFS. (references)

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Commercial Usage: COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM

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Books

  • Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

common internet file system

3
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Alternative Orthography: COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 4D 4D 4F 4E      49 4E 54 45 52 4E 45 54      46 49 4C 45      53 59 53 54 45 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01001111 01001110 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000110 01001001 01001100 01000101 00100000 01010011 01011001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004D 004D 004F 004E      0049 004E 0054 0045 0052 004E 0045 0054      0046 0049 004C 0045      0053 0059 0053 0054 0045 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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