Samba Team member Chris Hertel has a new article up on Linux Magazine. The article provides a nice introduction to jCIFS and outlines some possible ways to use jCIFS as an interface to your CIFS server.

Here's a teaser from the piece:

jCIFS (http://jcifs.samba.org/) is the product of an unlikely union between Sun's Java and Microsoft's SMB/CIFS file sharing suite. jCIFS provides all of the tools a Java coder needs to get along in a Windows Network Neighborhood; jCIFS dances elegantly with Samba; and jCIFS runs on everything from palmtops to mainframes. Where else but in open source could such a story be told?

For the complete article, please see jCIFS: The SMB Can Opener.