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1 | This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System |
2 | (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block | |
3 | (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early | |
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4 | PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now |
5 | called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the | |
6 | CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network | |
7 | file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012 | |
8 | as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS | |
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9 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so |
10 | this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of | |
81b66220 | 11 | servers. |
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13 | The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network | |
14 | file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better | |
15 | POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high | |
16 | performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet | |
17 | signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization | |
18 | improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support | |
19 | the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable | |
20 | alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, | |
21 | not just in Linux to Windows environments. | |
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81b66220 | 23 | This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from |
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81b66220 | 25 | https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ |
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81b66220 | 27 | It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers. |
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81b66220 | 29 | For more information on the module see the project wiki page at |
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81b66220 | 31 | https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils |