mount.
domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the
username during CIFS session establishment
- uid Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers
+ forceuid Set the default uid for inodes to the uid
+ passed in on mount. For mounts to servers
which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a
properly configured Samba server, the server provides
- the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
+ the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
specified unless the server and clients uid and gid
numbering differ. If the server and client are in the
same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and
of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person
who executed the mount (root, except when mount.cifs
is configured setuid for user mounts) unless the "uid="
- (gid) mount option is specified. For the uid (gid) of newly
- created files and directories, ie files created since
- the last mount of the server share, the expected uid
- (gid) is cached as long as the inode remains in
- memory on the client. Also note that permission
+ (gid) mount option is specified. Also note that permission
checks (authorization checks) on accesses to a file occur
at the server, but there are cases in which an administrator
may want to restrict at the client as well. For those
(such as Windows), permissions can also be checked at the
client, and a crude form of client side permission checking
can be enabled by specifying file_mode and dir_mode on
- the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be
- at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid
- (or gid) in non-numeric form.
+ the client. (default)
+ forcegid (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid) (default)
+ noforceuid Fill in file owner information (uid) by requesting it from
+ the server if possible. With this option, the value given in
+ the uid= option (on mount) will only be used if the server
+ can not support returning uids on inodes.
+ noforcegid (similar to above but for the group owner, gid, instead of uid)
+ uid Set the default uid for inodes, and indicate to the
+ cifs kernel driver which local user mounted. If the server
+ supports the unix extensions the default uid is
+ not used to fill in the owner fields of inodes (files)
+ unless the "forceuid" parameter is specified.
gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
this overrides the default mode for file inodes.
or the CIFS Unix Extensions equivalent and for those
this mount option will have no effect. Exporting cifs mounts
under nfsd requires this mount option on the cifs mount.
+ This is now the default if server supports the
+ required network operation.
noserverino Client generates inode numbers (rather than using the actual one
- from the server) by default.
+ from the server). These inode numbers will vary after
+ unmount or reboot which can confuse some applications,
+ but not all server filesystems support unique inode
+ numbers.
setuids If the CIFS Unix extensions are negotiated with the server
the client will attempt to set the effective uid and gid of
the local process on newly created files, directories, and
signing turned on in case buffer was modified
just before it was sent, also this flag will
be used to use the new experimental directory change
- notification code).
+ notification code). When set to 2 enables
+ an additional experimental feature, "raw ntlmssp"
+ session establishment support (which allows
+ specifying "sec=ntlmssp" on mount). The Linux cifs
+ module will use ntlmv2 authentication encapsulated
+ in "raw ntlmssp" (not using SPNEGO) when
+ "sec=ntlmssp" is specified on mount.
+ This support also requires building cifs with
+ the CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL configuration flag.
These experimental features and tracing can be enabled by changing flags in
/proc/fs/cifs (after the cifs module has been installed or built into the
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