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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 |