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This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
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(CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
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(SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
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PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network
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file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including
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Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
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server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so
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this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of
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servers. The smbfs module should be used instead of this cifs module
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for mounting to older SMB servers such as OS/2. The smbfs and cifs
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modules can coexist and do not conflict. The CIFS VFS filesystem
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module is designed to work well with servers that implement the
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newer versions (dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba,
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the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host
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into a SMB/CIFS file server.
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The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network
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file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better
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POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high
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performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
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signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization
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improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support
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the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable
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alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments,
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not just in Linux to Windows environments.
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This filesystem has an optional mount utility (mount.cifs) that can
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be obtained from the project page and installed in the path in the same
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directory with the other mount helpers (such as mount.smbfs).
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Mounting using the cifs filesystem without installing the mount helper
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requires specifying the server's ip address.
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For Linux 2.4:
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mount //anything/here /mnt_target -o
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user=username,pass=password,unc=//ip_address_of_server/sharename
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For Linux 2.5:
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mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, pass=password
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For more information on the module see the project page at
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http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html
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For more information on CIFS see:
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http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS
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or the Samba site:
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http://www.samba.org
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