Slides are in PDF format.

Further updates to the INet 4011 presentation from previous years, combining slides from several sources with several new ones.

Slides are available in PDF format.

INet 4011 is a Network Administration class. It's part of a University of Minnesota Bachelor of Applied Science program presented by the College of Continuing Education.

I had a cold.
Somehow, I managed to spin out this presentation covering the differences (both technical and practical) between SCSI and ATA.

Slides are in PDF format.

This is an update of the INet 4011 presentation I gave in 2004, combining slides from several sources with a handfull of new ones. Available in PDF format.

Tricky. I knew little about this conference before I attended, so I tried to throw everything that seemed reasonable into the presentation. Somehow, I got it right (or they were too polite to tell me otherwise).

Slides are in PDF format.

Slides for the Storage Systems presentation are available for download in OpenOffice and PDF format.

The slides for the second presentation (Samba, CIFS, etc.) are in HTML format.

The 2004 Wireless presentation slides are also available.

...and now for something completely familiar!
The annual CIFS Basement Tour!

Perhaps for the last time at the CIFS conference. It is getting old, I'm 'fraid, and the crowd at the conference has seen it all before.

If you missed the conference and need a solid foundation in CIFS, I'm happy to provide an updated version.

Also...

• A Place for your Stuff
  Rolling out iSCSI at the UofM.
• What the heck is WebDAV?
  An inquiry into the features and functionality of WebDAV.

I had a lot of fun giving these presentations--and got to see a few friends as well. Rachel and the kids came along and we stayed an extra few days, so the trip turned into a mini family vacation. As is often the case, we left with plans to head north again soon.

Here's the blurb on the presentations:

Microsoft's CIFS suite is the most widely used network filesystem in the world--and Samba is the premier Open Source CIFS implementation.

In this presentation, Samba Team member and CIFS Geek Chris Hertel will explain what CIFS is, how it works, and why it is important to Microsoft, the Open Source community, commercial developers, and IT businesses in general. Chris will also discuss Samba 3 (the current production version), Samba 4 (a complete rewrite of Samba), and related Open Source projects such as jCIFS, Davenport, and Mono--tools that allow Linux, Unix, NetWare, and MacOS to interoperate with Windows systems in a Microsoft-dominated world.

Several appliance products, from tiny file and print servers to enterprise-class storage systems, now run Samba. The presentation will include a variety of examples, and some practical ideas on leveraging Open Source in the commercial world.

The slides are now online.

An amazing experience. One week on the Mediterranean with shore excursions in Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Croatia.

The GeekCruise classes were held while we were at sea. My Samba/CIFS talk was three hours long, but I still found myself rushing at the end. I drew the short straw and wound up presenting first thing in the morning on the first day of the cruise. The audience was jet-lagged and bleary-eyed, but going first left me with the rest of the week to enjoy myself.

Once more yet again!

It's popular! It's recyled!
It's the annual 2-hour CIFS Basement Tour!

As always, the presentation has been updated and improved over the previous year's. Share and enjoy!

This is a gentle introduction to Samba, CIFS, and the fine art of making a good cup of tea. The goal of this presentation is to help system administrators understand what they're up against, share some of the thoughts that trouble the minds of Open Source CIFS folk, and to raise the overall CIFS clue factor in the Open Source community.

This is an overview of the jCIFS project, presented for the Twin Cities Java User's Group.

For the second Samba/eXPo, I provided an overview of basic authentication in SMB/CIFS. The presentation covers Share and User Level security, Null and Guest authentication, Plaintext vs. Challenge-Response, plus the LM and NTLM mechanisms.

An audio recording of this presentation is available from the Samba/eXPo 2003 archives.

This short presentation was given at the first Samba/eXPo conference, hosted by Service Network GmbH in Göttingen, Germany.

The presentation describes the ubiquity of SMB/CIFS filesharing, and explains why and how the Open Source community should leverage SMB/CIFS filesharing. It covers a variety of available tools including jCIFS, Samba, libsmbclient, the Linux & BSD SMBFS implementations, and older code such as libsmb++ and Sharity Lite.

A two hour extravaganza!
This presentation provides an overview of the CIFS protocol suite. It is aimed at developers, security analysts, technical support folk, and suchlike. It's broad enough to appeal to technical managers yet provides enough tofu for you to really sink in your teeth.

This tutorial can be further expanded or adapted to cover different aspects of CIFS and/or Samba. SAN and NAS providers, consulting firms, service companies, or anyone who needs a better understanding of the workings of Samba or CIFS may contact me regarding this tutorial.

This is an expanded version of the CIFS tutorial given the year before. Not quite as polished as the 2003 version.

I gave two presentations at the 2001 CIFS conference. The first was an overview of the jCIFS project and the SMB URI format, aimed at other developers, with the goal of keeping them up to date with regard to these two (mostly unrelated) projects.

The second presentation was a tutorial overview of the CIFS protocol suite. This has evolved over the years into the two hour tutorial that I give today.