wok-next view linux/description.linux-cifs.txt @ rev 21680
updated gf2x (1.2 -> 1.3.0)
| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Mon Jun 29 14:15:30 2020 +0100 (2020-06-29) |
| parents | 119e586fb823 |
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1 CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)
3 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System (CIFS)
4 protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the
5 native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. The CIFS
6 protocol is fully supported by file servers such as Windows 2000 (including
7 Windows 2003, Windows 2008, NT 4 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which
8 provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating
9 systems). Limited support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is
10 provided as well.
12 The module also provides optional support for the followon protocols for CIFS
13 including SMB3, which enables useful performance and security features.
15 The cifs module provides an advanced network file system client for mounting to
16 CIFS compliant servers. It includes support for DFS (hierarchical name space),
17 secure per-user session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, safe
18 distributed caching (oplock), optional packet signing, Unicode and other
19 internationalization improvements.
21 Use this module if you need to mount to Samba or Windows from your machine.