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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. New and improved versions of CIFS are now
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called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the
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CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network
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file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012
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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.
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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 mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from
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https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
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It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers.
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For more information on the module see the project wiki page at
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https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils
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