- support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
- You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
- such as OS/2 and DOS.
-
- The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
- network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
- including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
- session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
- packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
- and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
- cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
- smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
- and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
- to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
+ support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as
+ well.
+
+ The cifs module provides an advanced network file system
+ client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes
+ support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
+ session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2,
+ safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
+ signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
+ If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.