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Projects:

ubiqx modules

Our first Open Source project. The ubiqx modules implement simple data structures and algorithms--useful stuff that most folks either write a thousand times or never write at all. The goal of this project is to create a set of portable, easy-to-use modules that let you use these data structures in your code without worrying about wheel reinventation. These modules provide such things as binary splay trees, sparse arrays, linked lists, and suchlike.

Download the ubiqx library.

[LGPL]

uCIFS library

uCIFS is a small but (slowly) growing set of modules that provide NBT and SMB networking support. The goal is to create a small, concise library of C functions that will allow you to create a simple SMB client, or NBT and Browse Service probes. Eventually, there might be enough there to build a lightweight SMB server.

[LGPL]

jCIFS is an SMB/CIFS client toolkit written in Java. It runs on everything from PDAs to Mainframes. It also has classes that perform NTLMSSP over HTTP authentication which, put simply, means that you can use jCIFS to provide remote authentication to Windows domains via the web.

[LGPL]

Samba is one if the best-known Open Source/Free Software projects in existence. There are twenty to thirty people around the world who manage the project, and crh is one of them.

Samba ships with all major Linux distributions, and also runs on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, MacOSX, AIX, HPUX, IRIX, Solaris, and others. There is even an Amiga port of Samba (thanks, Olaf!).

Samba Team photo--2002 CIFS conference.

[GPL]

Writhings:

Implementing CIFS

Implementing CIFS is a complete on-line book describing the inner workings of Microsoft's CIFS filesharing protocol suite. It includes sections on NBT (NetBIOS over TCP), SMB (the Server Message Block protocol) and the Browse Service.

Oh! ...and it's also available in printed format from Prentice Hall PTR.

[Open Publication License]

jCIFS: The SMB Can Opener,: February 2005

Understanding the Network Neighborhood,: May 2001

The Story of Samba: Linux's Stealth Weapon,: With Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, September 1999

Samba:
An Introduction

Chapter 23 of The Unix System Today, ISBN: 1-85912-296-5, published by The Open Group, May 2000

[Foto by Chris Vogel, SerNet.de, from Samba/XP 2003

Presentations

Crh has been doing presentations and tutorials for a while now. Some of them are archived here, all in HTML format.

Most of these cover Samba and/or CIFS filesharing. They range from lightweight overviews to in-depth tutorials on protocol architectures.

Updates:

October 24^th, 2005	We've made a small change to the ubi_trTraverse() function in the ubiqx binary tree code. It's not so much a bug fix as bug avoidance. See the download page for updated source.
August 14^th, 2005	There's a Samba Team Photo from the 2005 CIFS conference available. Crh is 3^rd from the left. Conference presentation slides: Annual CIFS Tutorial What (the heck) is WebDAV? A Place for your Stuff: iSCSI at the UofM A lot of time is being spent with iSCSI these days—mostly in learn mode. Current project status: jCIFS 1.2.2 is available. Samba 3.0.20 is available.
May 14^th, 2005	We've been busy... There's a lot of new stuff going on, but it's not on the website (yet). Current project status: Samba 3.0.14a has been released. jCIFS 1.1.11 is available.
February, 2005	Slides from the Northland Technology Consortium and TechNorth Prep Center presentations are available.
October 22^nd, 2004	Just back from our GeekCruise. The Samba / CIFS presentation slides are now available.
September 10^th, 2004	Dunno how he slipped this in without my noticing, but Mike has released jCIFS version 1.0.1. He has also written a really nice snapshot history of jCIFS, which is now (at least) five years old.
August 14^th, 2004	The Introductory CIFS Tutorial slides from the 2004 CIFS Conference. are online.
July 21^st, 2004	UofM Inet 4011 slides: The slides for the Inet 4011 wireless presentation are now back online. I will be using my Penguicon2.0 slides for the July 27th Inet 4011 class.
June 6^th, 2004	I've made a small fix to the ubi_BinTree module that impacts the ubi_Cache module. See the news page for more information.
April 20^th, 2004	We're back from Penguicon, which was a lot of fun. `Crh` gave a presentation on Samba, CIFS, and the subtleties of making a good cup of tea. The room was small but crowded, and most people stayed for the entire two-hour schtick. The presentation slides are on-line.
January 21^st, 2004	TCJUG presentation slides are available on-line.
September 10^th, 2003	Reviews of Implementing CIFS are starting to appear. See the news page.
January 22^nd, 2003	Heh. Tim was able to get `ubiqx.net` registered for us in addition to `ubiqx.org`. Thanks, Tim!