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"Protocol Negotiation," a chapter excerpt from Chris Hertel's book, "Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System"

With our exclusive chapter excerpt, "Protocol Negotiation" from Chris Hertel's book, "Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System," you can learn about the various dialects of the CIFS protocol suite as well as the workings of the Negotiate Protocol SMB exchange.

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September 16, 2003

"Protocol Negotiation," a chapter excerpt from, "Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System" (pdf: 128k)

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This book excerpt is from Chapter 13 of "Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System" by Chris Hertel, ISBN 0-13-047116-X, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This chapter, titled "Protocol Negotiation" is posted with permission from Prentice Hall PTR. This book is part of the Prentice Hall PTR Bruce Perens' Open Source Series line of books which are published under the Open Publication License.

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