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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 |
4 | PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network |
5 | file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including |
6 | Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS |
7 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so |
8 | this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of |
9 | servers. The smbfs module should be used instead of this cifs module |
10 | for mounting to older SMB servers such as OS/2. The smbfs and cifs |
11 | modules can coexist and do not conflict. The CIFS VFS filesystem |
12 | module is designed to work well with servers that implement the |
13 | newer versions (dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba, |
14 | the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host |
15 | into a SMB/CIFS file server. |
16 | |
17 | The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network |
18 | file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better |
19 | POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high |
20 | performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet |
21 | signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization |
22 | improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support |
23 | the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable |
24 | alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, |
25 | not just in Linux to Windows environments. |
26 | |
27 | This filesystem has an optional mount utility (mount.cifs) that can |
28 | be obtained from the project page and installed in the path in the same |
29 | directory with the other mount helpers (such as mount.smbfs). |
30 | Mounting using the cifs filesystem without installing the mount helper |
31 | requires specifying the server's ip address. |
32 | |
33 | For Linux 2.4: |
34 | mount //anything/here /mnt_target -o |
35 | user=username,pass=password,unc=//ip_address_of_server/sharename |
36 | |
37 | For Linux 2.5: |
38 | mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, pass=password |
39 | |
40 | |
41 | For more information on the module see the project page at |
42 | |
43 | http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html |
44 | |
45 | For more information on CIFS see: |
46 | |
47 | http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS |
48 | |
49 | or the Samba site: |
50 | |
51 | http://www.samba.org |
52 |
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