diff -Naur linux-2.5.24org/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX linux-2.5.24/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX --- linux-2.5.24org/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX Wed Jul 3 14:38:55 2002 +++ linux-2.5.24/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX Wed Jul 3 14:40:09 2002 @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ - info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System. bfs.txt - info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS). +cifs.txt + - description of the CIFS filesystem coda.txt - description of the CODA filesystem. cramfs.txt diff -Naur linux-2.5.24org/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt linux-2.5.24/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt --- linux-2.5.24org/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 +++ linux-2.5.24/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt Wed Jul 3 15:00:00 2002 @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +This module, cifs, is a filesystem that implements the SMB/CIFS protocol, which is the +protocol used by Windows based operating systems (including Windows 2000 and its successors) +as well as Samba, OS/2 and many others operating systems and network file server appliances. +The Cifs VFS filesystem module is designed to work well with servers that implement the newer versions +(dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell +that turns any Unix host into a file server for DOS or Windows clients, as well as Windows NT, +Windows 2000 and its successors. It is not designed to handle older smb servers well, those that +implement older versions of the dialect (such as OS/2 or Windows 95), for this purpose use smbfs. + +This module can support mounting without a mount helper program. The mount syntax is: + mount //server_ip_address/share_name /mnt -o user=username,password=your_password +where "username", "your_password" and "server_ip_address" and "share_name" should be replaced +with specific values (supplied by the user) e.g. + mount //9.53.216.16/public /mnt -o user=jsmith,password=openup + +This cifs implementation is designed to handle network caching (safely) as well as to implement locking, +large file (64 bit access), distributed file system ("dfs") and other advanced protocol features. It +also implements the SNIA standard for Unix extensions to CIFS (when communicating with servers such as +Samba 2.2.3 or later which support it). + +For more information contact sfrench@us.ibm.com + +Cifs is an SMB client (or gateway). For more info on the SMB/CIFS protocol and Samba, including +documentation, please go to http://www.samba.org/ and then on to your nearest mirror. For more +information about the cifs vfs, go to the project page at: + http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html diff -Naur linux-2.5.24org/fs/Config.help linux-2.5.24/fs/Config.help --- linux-2.5.24org/fs/Config.help Wed Jul 3 14:39:16 2002 +++ linux-2.5.24/fs/Config.help Wed Jul 3 14:40:09 2002 @@ -920,6 +920,33 @@ module, say M here and read . If unsure, say N. +CIFS (Common Internet File System) support +CONFIG_CIFS + 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. CIFS is fully supported by current network + file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows NT version 4 + and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS + server support for Linux and many other operating systems). For + production systems the smbfs module may be used instead of this + cifs module since smbfs is currently more stable and provides + support for older servers. The intent of this module is to provide the + most advanced network file system function for CIFS compliant servers, + including support for dfs (heirarchical name space), secure per-user + session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional + packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and + optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. This module is in an early + development stage, so unless you are specifically interested in this + filesystem, just say N. + +CIFS Debugging +CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG + If you are experiencing any problems with the CIFS filesystem, say + Y here. This will result in additional debugging messages to be + written to the system log. Under normal circumstances, this + results in very little overhead. + CONFIG_SMB_FS SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share diff -Naur linux-2.5.24org/fs/Config.in linux-2.5.24/fs/Config.in --- linux-2.5.24org/fs/Config.in Wed Jul 3 14:39:16 2002 +++ linux-2.5.24/fs/Config.in Wed Jul 3 14:40:09 2002 @@ -132,6 +132,8 @@ fi define_tristate CONFIG_EXPORTFS $CONFIG_NFSD + dep_tristate 'CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other CIFS compliant servers)' CONFIG_CIFS $CONFIG_INET + dep_tristate 'SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)' CONFIG_SMB_FS $CONFIG_INET if [ "$CONFIG_SMB_FS" != "n" ]; then bool ' Use a default NLS' CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT diff -Naur linux-2.5.24org/fs/Makefile linux-2.5.24/fs/Makefile --- linux-2.5.24org/fs/Makefile Wed Jul 3 14:39:14 2002 +++ linux-2.5.24/fs/Makefile Wed Jul 3 14:47:07 2002 @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NLS) += nls/ obj-$(CONFIG_SYSV_FS) += sysv/ obj-$(CONFIG_SMB_FS) += smbfs/ +obj-$(CONFIG_CIFS) += cifs/ obj-$(CONFIG_NCP_FS) += ncpfs/ obj-$(CONFIG_HPFS_FS) += hpfs/ obj-$(CONFIG_NTFS_FS) += ntfs/ diff -Naur linux-2.5.24org/fs/nls/Config.in linux-2.5.24/fs/nls/Config.in --- linux-2.5.24org/fs/nls/Config.in Wed Jul 3 14:39:11 2002 +++ linux-2.5.24/fs/nls/Config.in Wed Jul 3 14:40:09 2002 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ # msdos and Joliet want NLS if [ "$CONFIG_JOLIET" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_FAT_FS" != "n" \ -o "$CONFIG_NTFS_FS" != "n" -o "$CONFIG_NCPFS_NLS" = "y" \ - -o "$CONFIG_SMB_NLS" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_JFS_FS" != "n" ]; then + -o "$CONFIG_SMB_NLS" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_JFS_FS" != "n" -o "$CONFIG_CIFS" != "n"]; then define_bool CONFIG_NLS y else define_bool CONFIG_NLS n diff -Naur linux-2.5.24org/fs/cifs/Makefile linux-2.5.24/fs/cifs/Makefile --- linux-2.5.24org/fs/cifs/Makefile Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 +++ linux-2.5.24/fs/cifs/Makefile Sun Jul 7 22:14:12 2002 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# +# Makefile for Linux CIFS VFS client +# +obj-$(CONFIG_CIFS) += cifs.o + +cifs-objs := cifsfs.o cifssmb.o cifs_debug.o connect.o dir.o file.o inode.o link.o misc.o netmisc.o smbdes.o smbencrypt.o transport.o asn1.o md4.o md5.o cifs_unicode.o nterr.o + +include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make