The book, "Implementing CIFS, The Common Internet File System," Prentice Hall 2003, is a charming technical guide filled with CIFS implementation and operation details, and interspersed with Chris' unique humor.

The guide details bugs and common errors, as well as the "sharing of directories, files, printers, and other cool computer stuff across a network." The book also includes notes on politics, Minnesota winters, and instructions for making a better cup of tea.

In the introduction Chris states: "The investigation of CIFS is a forensic art. The Network Neighborhood icon that appears on the Windows desktop hides a great deal of gear-churning and behind-the-scenes fussing."

As a developer of CIFS implementations, he has included all that he knows through trials and testing. According to the forward: "The end result was a lot of testing, experimentation, and analysis, but also a solid foundation behind this massive effort".

The book provides an extensive guide for network and system administrators who want to understand CIFS, how it behaves and misbehaves. It also includes very extensive appendices, the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference, and a glossary.

The book is available from the UofM bookstore or from Prentice Hall, http://www.phptr.com . Since it is published under the Open Publications license, the entire contents are available for preview at http://www.ubiqx.org/cifs/ . (Open Publications info here: http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ .)

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