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2 Introduction
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4
5 This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 N
6 as for older dialects such as the Common Int
7 protocol which was the successor to the Serv
8 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mech
9 PC operating systems. New and improved versi
10 called SMB2 and SMB3. Use of SMB3 (and later
11 the most current dialect) is strongly prefer
12 dialects like CIFS due to security reasons.
13 including the most recent, SMB3.1.1, are sup
14 module. The SMB3 protocol is implemented and
15 file servers such as Windows (including Wind
16 well as by Samba (which provides excellent C
17 support and tools for Linux and many other o
18 Apple systems also support SMB3 well, as do
19 Storage vendors, so this network filesystem
20 wide variety of systems. It also supports mo
21 (for example Microsoft Azure), including the
22 features.
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24 The intent of this module is to provide the
25 file system function for SMB3 compliant serv
26 security features, excellent parallelized hi
27 POSIX compliance, secure per-user session es
28 high performance safe distributed caching (l
29 signing, large files, Unicode support and ot
30 improvements. Since both Samba server and th
31 CIFS Unix extensions, and the Linux client a
32 the combination can provide a reasonable alt
33 cluster file systems for fileserving in some
34 not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Ma
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36 This filesystem has a mount utility (mount.c
37 tools (including smbinfo and setcifsacl) tha
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39 https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git
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41 or
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43 git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git
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45 mount.cifs should be installed in the direct
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47 For more information on the module see the p
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49 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCI
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51 and
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53 https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCI
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