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1 | This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well |
2 | older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS) | |
3 | protocol which was the successor to the Server Message Block | |
1da177e4 | 4 | (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early |
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5 | PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now |
6 | called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the | |
7 | CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network | |
ec11653b | 8 | file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 |
81b66220 | 9 | as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS |
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10 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems), Apple |
11 | systems, as well as most Network Attached Storage vendors, so | |
1da177e4 | 12 | this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of |
81b66220 | 13 | servers. |
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14 | |
15 | The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network | |
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16 | file system function for SMB3 compliant servers, including advanced |
17 | security features, excellent parallelized high performance i/o, better | |
18 | POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, encryption, | |
19 | high performance safe distributed caching (leases/oplocks), optional packet | |
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20 | signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization |
21 | improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support | |
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22 | the CIFS Unix extensions (and in the future SMB3 POSIX extensions), |
23 | the combination can provide a reasonable alternative to other network and | |
24 | cluster file systems for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, | |
25 | not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Mac) environments. | |
1da177e4 | 26 | |
81b66220 | 27 | This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from |
1da177e4 | 28 | |
81b66220 | 29 | https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ |
1da177e4 | 30 | |
81b66220 | 31 | It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers. |
1da177e4 | 32 | |
81b66220 | 33 | For more information on the module see the project wiki page at |
1da177e4 | 34 | |
81b66220 | 35 | https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils |