I, too, am in desperate need of a CIFS implementation. I'm making a robot that takes a screenshot from a Windows PC (shared out via CIFS) and controls stepper motors to interact with it. I have tried FIVE configurations for my current project (requiring CIFS and OpenCV) and each have flaws:
- Raspberry Pi: Far too slow on OpenCV, not as good at robot control as Arduino.
- Beaglebone Black: Same disadvantages as Raspberry Pi.
- Arduino YUN: No OpenCV build available for it yet. Probably too slow in OpenCV.
- Intel Galileo: No CIFS support available. May be too slow in OpenCV but without CIFS I can't even test the files I am scanning.
- Some other Arduino and an Intel NUC i3: Fast and good robot control, but clunky, large, and very limited in how I can communicate between the two. Serial only.
I think I'll end up with the Intel NUC i3 do both the CIFS and OpenCV part, then send robot control commands to the Galileo via curl. That means the robot will have THREE computers: The i3 running Linux/OpenCV/file management, the Galileo running the robot, and the original computer providing the screenshots. An ugly solution, to be sure.