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- This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
- (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
- (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
- PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now
- called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the
- CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network
- file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012
- as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
- server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so
- this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of
- servers.
- The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network
- file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better
- POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high
- performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
- signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization
- improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support
- the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable
- alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments,
- not just in Linux to Windows environments.
- This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from
- https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
- It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers.
- For more information on the module see the project wiki page at
- https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils
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