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1 | 1 | This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System |
2 | 2 | (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block |
3 | 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 |
| 4 | + PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now |
| 5 | + called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the |
| 6 | + CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network |
| 7 | + file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012 |
| 8 | + as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS |
7 | 9 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so |
8 | 10 | 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. |
| 11 | + servers. |
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17 | 13 | The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network |
18 | 14 | file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better |
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24 | 20 | alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, |
25 | 21 | not just in Linux to Windows environments. |
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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. |
| 23 | + This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from |
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33 | | - For Linux 2.4: |
34 | | - mount //anything/here /mnt_target -o |
35 | | - user=username,pass=password,unc=//ip_address_of_server/sharename |
| 25 | + https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ |
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37 | | - For Linux 2.5: |
38 | | - mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, pass=password |
| 27 | + It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers. |
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| 29 | + For more information on the module see the project wiki page at |
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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 |
| 31 | + https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils |
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