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This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well
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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. These dialects are also supported by the
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CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network
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file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016
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as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
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server support for Linux and many other operating systems), Apple
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systems, as well as most Network Attached Storage vendors, so
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this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of
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servers.
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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
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the CIFS Unix extensions (and in the future 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 an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from
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https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
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It must 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_utils
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