Course Description

This course presents an overview of the history, features and attributes of the Server Message Block and the Common Internet File System protocols. It explains the history and the operational features of SMB, and CIFS as a dialect of SMB. Also covered are the versions, attributes and applications of each protocol.

Course Objective

• Explain the history of Server Message Block (SMB) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocols
• Explain how the protocols establish remote file sharing for Windows platforms
• Describe SMB functionality and client-to-server file sharing operation
• Define the versions and attributes of each protocol

Course Developer

Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.