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  1. config CIFS
  2. tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)"
  3. depends on INET
  4. select NLS
  5. select SLOW_WORK
  6. help
  7. This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
  8. (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
  9. (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
  10. PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
  11. file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
  12. and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
  13. server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
  14. support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as
  15. well.
  16. The cifs module provides an advanced network file system
  17. client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes
  18. support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
  19. session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2,
  20. safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
  21. signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
  22. If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
  23. config CIFS_STATS
  24. bool "CIFS statistics"
  25. depends on CIFS
  26. help
  27. Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
  28. mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
  29. config CIFS_STATS2
  30. bool "Extended statistics"
  31. depends on CIFS_STATS
  32. help
  33. Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
  34. request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
  35. allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
  36. value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
  37. These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
  38. and memory utilization.
  39. Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
  40. or tuning, say N.
  41. config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
  42. bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
  43. depends on CIFS
  44. help
  45. Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
  46. (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
  47. security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
  48. than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
  49. SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to
  50. establish sessions with some old SMB servers.
  51. Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
  52. LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
  53. mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
  54. security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
  55. have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
  56. network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
  57. is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be
  58. used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
  59. can be set to required (or optional) either in
  60. /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
  61. option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
  62. default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
  63. attack.
  64. If unsure, say N.
  65. config CIFS_UPCALL
  66. bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup"
  67. depends on CIFS && KEYS
  68. help
  69. Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses
  70. userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178)
  71. Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
  72. (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
  73. unsure, say N.
  74. config CIFS_XATTR
  75. bool "CIFS extended attributes"
  76. depends on CIFS
  77. help
  78. Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
  79. the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit
  80. <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of
  81. extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix
  82. to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the
  83. user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients
  84. prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
  85. (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
  86. this time.
  87. If unsure, say N.
  88. config CIFS_POSIX
  89. bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
  90. depends on CIFS_XATTR
  91. help
  92. Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
  93. negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
  94. or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
  95. than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
  96. support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
  97. (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
  98. CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
  99. config CIFS_DEBUG2
  100. bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
  101. depends on CIFS
  102. help
  103. Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
  104. to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
  105. the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
  106. messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
  107. option can be turned off unless you are debugging
  108. cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
  109. config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
  110. bool "DFS feature support"
  111. depends on CIFS && KEYS
  112. help
  113. Distributed File System (DFS) support is used to access shares
  114. transparently in an enterprise name space, even if the share
  115. moves to a different server. This feature also enables
  116. an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace helper
  117. utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to
  118. IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction
  119. points. If unsure, say N.
  120. config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
  121. bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  122. depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
  123. help
  124. Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
  125. experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
  126. change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
  127. mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
  128. and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
  129. setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
  130. (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
  131. for more details. If unsure, say N.