Distributed File Systems Support The URLs below provide excellent information on distributed file systems and distributed shared memory short subject papers from Paul Krzyzanowski http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~pxk/rutgers/notes/content/05-dfs.pdf http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~pxk/rutgers/notes/content/09-dsm.pdf accompanying slides from Paul Krzyzanowski http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~pxk/rutgers/notes/content/dfs-intro-slides.pdf http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~pxk/rutgers/notes/content/dfs-studies-slides.pdf http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~pxk/rutgers/notes/content/dsm-slides.pdf ##################################################### The references below provide detail on the CIFS and NFS protocols and you should read them in addition to Chapter 9 in the text 1. The following CIFS references should be viewed from Internet Explorer http://ubiqx.org/presentations/cifs2002/pg01.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch03_03.html http://nasconf.com/pres03/Purcellfinal.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block the wiki article has many other reference links if you need additional information 2. Please read the following NFS references http://www.cs.uml.edu/~bill/cs560/NFSv3_Rev_3.pdf http://www.cs.uml.edu/~bill/cs560/Nfs_Slides.pdf