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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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+ 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. 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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+ 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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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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+ This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from
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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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+ https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
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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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+ 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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- 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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-
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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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-
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- or the Samba site:
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- http://www.samba.org
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+ https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils
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