That’s essentially the message I received from Curtis Maurand. But let’s hear from his own words. Whoever came up with the idea that SMB means “Small to Medium Business?” I’ve been working as a network administrator for 11 years. I started out with 3rd party tools (Artisoft Lantastic) that we tacked onto Windows 3.1 and DOS. I’ve worked with OS/2, Windows (you name the flavor), Linux and BSD. To me SMB always meant “Server Message Block” which is the underpinning of NetBIOS/NetBEUI (NetBEUI = NetBIOS over TCP) and is still the underpinning of Windows CIFS even though they don’t mention it any longer. I use SAMBA on my Linux machine to mount CIFS shares in a pinch. I really have a hard time reconciling the term. I really hate it when the media tries to redefine a term that’s been in use for 15 years. Here ends my rant. Curtis Maurand Well, you made a very good point Curtis, but I am not sure “the media” is responsible for creating this new meaning for SMB. I believe the second meaning was assigned by marketing people to quickly identify this new potential target segment for storage goodies.Anyway, Webopedia lists both meanings, but the authoritative SNIA dictionary reports only “Server Message Block”. Also, and this will probably really disappoint you, there are numerous if less frequently used, other meanings for SMB, some are quite surprising. Feel free to rant again soon.