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cifs: update cifs.txt and remove some outdated infos
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Björn JACKE <bj@sernet.de> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
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Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt
| 1 | 1 | This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System |
| 2 | 2 | (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block |
| 3 | 3 | (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early |
| 4 | - PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network | |
| 5 | - file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including | |
| 6 | - Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS | |
| 4 | + PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now | |
| 5 | + called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the | |
| 6 | + CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network | |
| 7 | + file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012 | |
| 8 | + as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS | |
| 7 | 9 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so |
| 8 | 10 | this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of |
| 9 | - servers. The smbfs module should be used instead of this cifs module | |
| 10 | - for mounting to older SMB servers such as OS/2. The smbfs and cifs | |
| 11 | - modules can coexist and do not conflict. The CIFS VFS filesystem | |
| 12 | - module is designed to work well with servers that implement the | |
| 13 | - newer versions (dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba, | |
| 14 | - the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host | |
| 15 | - into a SMB/CIFS file server. | |
| 11 | + servers. | |
| 16 | 12 | |
| 17 | 13 | The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network |
| 18 | 14 | file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better |
| 19 | 15 | |
| 20 | 16 | |
| 21 | 17 | |
| 22 | 18 | |
| ... | ... | @@ -24,29 +20,13 @@ |
| 24 | 20 | alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, |
| 25 | 21 | not just in Linux to Windows environments. |
| 26 | 22 | |
| 27 | - This filesystem has an optional mount utility (mount.cifs) that can | |
| 28 | - be obtained from the project page and installed in the path in the same | |
| 29 | - directory with the other mount helpers (such as mount.smbfs). | |
| 30 | - Mounting using the cifs filesystem without installing the mount helper | |
| 31 | - requires specifying the server's ip address. | |
| 23 | + This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from | |
| 32 | 24 | |
| 33 | - For Linux 2.4: | |
| 34 | - mount //anything/here /mnt_target -o | |
| 35 | - user=username,pass=password,unc=//ip_address_of_server/sharename | |
| 25 | + https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ | |
| 36 | 26 | |
| 37 | - For Linux 2.5: | |
| 38 | - mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, pass=password | |
| 27 | + It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers. | |
| 39 | 28 | |
| 29 | + For more information on the module see the project wiki page at | |
| 40 | 30 | |
| 41 | - For more information on the module see the project page at | |
| 42 | - | |
| 43 | - http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html | |
| 44 | - | |
| 45 | - For more information on CIFS see: | |
| 46 | - | |
| 47 | - http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS | |
| 48 | - | |
| 49 | - or the Samba site: | |
| 50 | - | |
| 51 | - http://www.samba.org | |
| 31 | + https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils |