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| author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> | 2013-09-05 08:38:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> | 2013-09-08 14:24:10 -0500 |
| commit | 30706a545417af50f07b8e47cc2189a2e20a4636 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dc52316aaa356ba728ec0b612799c314fb9d410 /Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt | |
| parent | 73e216a8a42c0ef3d08071705c946c38fdbe12b0 (diff) | |
cifs: create a new Documentation/ directory and move docfiles into it
Currently, we have a number of documentation files that live under
fs/cifs/. Generally, these don't get picked up by distro packagers,
since they're in a non-standard location. Move them to a new spot
under Documentation/ instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt | 51 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 51 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 49cc923a93e..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ - This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System - (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block - (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early - PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network - file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including - Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS - server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so - this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of - servers. The smbfs module should be used instead of this cifs module - for mounting to older SMB servers such as OS/2. The smbfs and cifs - modules can coexist and do not conflict. The CIFS VFS filesystem - module is designed to work well with servers that implement the - newer versions (dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba, - the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host - into a SMB/CIFS file server. - - The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network - file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better - POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high - performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet - signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization - improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support - the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable - alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, - not just in Linux to Windows environments. - - This filesystem has an optional mount utility (mount.cifs) that can - be obtained from the project page and installed in the path in the same - directory with the other mount helpers (such as mount.smbfs). - Mounting using the cifs filesystem without installing the mount helper - requires specifying the server's ip address. - - For Linux 2.4: - mount //anything/here /mnt_target -o - user=username,pass=password,unc=//ip_address_of_server/sharename - - For Linux 2.5: - mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, pass=password - - - For more information on the module see the project page at - - http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html - - For more information on CIFS see: - - http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS - - or the Samba site: - - http://www.samba.org |