In a set of round-up links, James McGovern wonders if I’m aware of the fact that CIFS is considered legacy for interacting with Microsoft domains. I wasn’t, but I am now :) Alfresco, luckily, supports more than just CIFS for enterprise authentication, and way more than CIFS for presenting the data to users – and I had already started going down the path of LDAP or Kerberos based authentication for users. We’re also not exposing the CIFS service ability of Alfresco to our users either for now – it’s webdav and web browser for the forseeable future.