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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..49cc923a93e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ + 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 |