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1 | config CIFS |
2 | tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)" | |
3 | depends on INET | |
4 | select NLS | |
d2b91521 | 5 | select CRYPTO |
f855f6cb | 6 | select CRYPTO_MD4 |
d2b91521 | 7 | select CRYPTO_MD5 |
362d3129 | 8 | select CRYPTO_HMAC |
d2b91521 | 9 | select CRYPTO_ARC4 |
43988d76 | 10 | select CRYPTO_DES |
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11 | help |
12 | This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System | |
13 | (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block | |
14 | (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early | |
15 | PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by | |
16 | file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 | |
17 | and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS | |
18 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited | |
19 | support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as | |
20 | well. | |
21 | ||
22 | The cifs module provides an advanced network file system | |
23 | client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes | |
24 | support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user | |
25 | session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, | |
26 | safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet | |
27 | signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. | |
28 | If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. | |
29 | ||
30 | config CIFS_STATS | |
31 | bool "CIFS statistics" | |
32 | depends on CIFS | |
33 | help | |
34 | Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share | |
35 | mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats | |
36 | ||
37 | config CIFS_STATS2 | |
38 | bool "Extended statistics" | |
39 | depends on CIFS_STATS | |
40 | help | |
41 | Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB | |
42 | request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also | |
43 | allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the | |
44 | value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). | |
45 | These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance | |
46 | and memory utilization. | |
47 | ||
48 | Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis | |
49 | or tuning, say N. | |
50 | ||
51 | config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH | |
52 | bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" | |
53 | depends on CIFS | |
54 | help | |
55 | Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions | |
56 | (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) | |
57 | security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely | |
58 | than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the | |
59 | SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to | |
60 | establish sessions with some old SMB servers. | |
61 | ||
62 | Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older | |
63 | LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such | |
64 | mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent | |
65 | security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you | |
66 | have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private | |
67 | network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support | |
68 | is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be | |
69 | used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but | |
70 | can be set to required (or optional) either in | |
71 | /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an | |
72 | option on the mount command. This support is disabled by | |
73 | default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade | |
74 | attack. | |
75 | ||
76 | If unsure, say N. | |
77 | ||
78 | config CIFS_UPCALL | |
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79 | bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup" |
80 | depends on CIFS && KEYS | |
81 | select DNS_RESOLVER | |
82 | help | |
83 | Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses userspace helper | |
84 | utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) Kerberos tickets | |
85 | which are needed to mount to certain secure servers (for which more | |
86 | secure Kerberos authentication is required). If unsure, say N. | |
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87 | |
88 | config CIFS_XATTR | |
89 | bool "CIFS extended attributes" | |
90 | depends on CIFS | |
91 | help | |
92 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by | |
93 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit | |
94 | <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of | |
95 | extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix | |
96 | to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the | |
97 | user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients | |
98 | prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace | |
99 | (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at | |
100 | this time. | |
101 | ||
102 | If unsure, say N. | |
103 | ||
104 | config CIFS_POSIX | |
105 | bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" | |
106 | depends on CIFS_XATTR | |
107 | help | |
108 | Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to | |
109 | negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 | |
110 | or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather | |
111 | than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables | |
112 | support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers | |
113 | (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate | |
114 | CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. | |
115 | ||
116 | config CIFS_DEBUG2 | |
117 | bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" | |
118 | depends on CIFS | |
119 | help | |
120 | Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines | |
121 | to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of | |
122 | the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug | |
123 | messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This | |
124 | option can be turned off unless you are debugging | |
125 | cifs problems. If unsure, say N. | |
126 | ||
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127 | config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL |
128 | bool "DFS feature support" | |
129 | depends on CIFS && KEYS | |
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131 | help |
132 | Distributed File System (DFS) support is used to access shares | |
133 | transparently in an enterprise name space, even if the share | |
134 | moves to a different server. This feature also enables | |
135 | an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace helper | |
136 | utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to | |
137 | IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction | |
138 | points. If unsure, say N. | |
139 | ||
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140 | config CIFS_FSCACHE |
141 | bool "Provide CIFS client caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
142 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
143 | depends on CIFS=m && FSCACHE || CIFS=y && FSCACHE=y | |
144 | help | |
145 | Makes CIFS FS-Cache capable. Say Y here if you want your CIFS data | |
146 | to be cached locally on disk through the general filesystem cache | |
147 | manager. If unsure, say N. | |
148 | ||
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149 | config CIFS_ACL |
150 | bool "Provide CIFS ACL support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
151 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CIFS_XATTR | |
152 | help | |
153 | Allows to fetch CIFS/NTFS ACL from the server. The DACL blob | |
154 | is handed over to the application/caller. | |
155 | ||
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156 | config CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT |
157 | bool "Allow nfsd to export CIFS file system (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
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158 | depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL |
159 | help | |
25720873 | 160 | Allows NFS server to export a CIFS mounted share (nfsd over cifs) |