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From: gwollman@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Garrett A Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: What does SMB Stand For?
Message-ID: <4784@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 90 20:47:38 GMT
References: <361@dg.dg.com>
Reply-To: gwollman@jhunix.UUCP (Garrett A Wollman)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <361@dg.dg.com> uunet!dg!rec (Robert Cousins) writes:
>I am hunting for a reference on the SMB protocol.  (I don't
>even known what the letters stand for.) 

Last I checked, "Server Message Block" is the protocol (layered on
top of NetBIOS and/or NetBEUI) which MS-NET and Lan Manager use
to work their remote file access.

-GAWollman
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