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Introduction |
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This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well |
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as for older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS) |
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protocol which was 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. New and improved versions of CIFS are now |
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called SMB2 and SMB3. Use of SMB3 (and later, including SMB3.1.1 |
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the most current dialect) is strongly preferred over using older |
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dialects like CIFS due to security reasons. All modern dialects, |
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including the most recent, SMB3.1.1, are supported by the CIFS VFS |
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module. The SMB3 protocol is implemented and supported by all major |
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file servers such as Windows (including Windows 2019 Server), as |
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well as by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 server |
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support and tools for Linux and many other operating systems). |
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Apple systems also support SMB3 well, as do most Network Attached |
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Storage vendors, so this network filesystem client can mount to a |
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wide variety of systems. It also supports mounting to the cloud |
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(for example Microsoft Azure), including the necessary security |
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features. |
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The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network |
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file system function for SMB3 compliant servers, including advanced |
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security features, excellent parallelized high performance i/o, better |
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POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, encryption, |
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high performance safe distributed caching (leases/oplocks), optional packet |
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signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization |
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improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support the |
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CIFS Unix extensions, and the Linux client also suppors SMB3 POSIX extensions, |
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the combination can provide a reasonable alternative to other network and |
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cluster file systems for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, |
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not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Mac) environments. |
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This filesystem has a mount utility (mount.cifs) and various user space |
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tools (including smbinfo and setcifsacl) that can be obtained from |
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https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git |
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or |
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git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git |
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mount.cifs should 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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https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS |
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and |
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https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils
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