Microsoft SMB Protocol and CIFS Protocol Overview. The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is a network file sharing protocol, and as implemented in Microsoft Windows is known as Microsoft SMB Protocol. The set of message packets that defines a particular version of the protocol is called a dialect. The Common Internet File System (CIFS) Protocol is a dialect of SMB.
The first Orange lodge was established at the Diamond in the north of Ireland in 1795 and the first general meeting of the Society in Ireland is recorded as taking place on July 12th, 1796, at Portadown.
The term goes back in American history to the 1840s, when the Law and Order Party was formed in Rhode Island to oppose the rebels in the Dorr War in 1846. In 1855 it was the name of the pro-slavery party in Kansas, and in 1856 the name of the group that opposed vigilantes in San Francisco.