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@@ -1871,20 +1871,14 @@ config CIFS
1871 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 1871 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1872 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1872 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1873 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 1873 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1874 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 1874 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1875 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1876 such as OS/2 and DOS.
1877 1875
1878 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 1876 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1879 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 1877 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1880 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 1878 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1881 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 1879 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1882 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 1880 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
1883 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 1881 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1884 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1885 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1886 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1887 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1888 1882
1889config CIFS_STATS 1883config CIFS_STATS
1890 bool "CIFS statistics" 1884 bool "CIFS statistics"
@@ -1977,14 +1971,13 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1977 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 1971 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1978 help 1972 help
1979 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 1973 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1980 experimental and currently include support for writepages 1974 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
1981 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory 1975 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
1982 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security 1976 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
1983 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the 1977 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
1984 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by 1978 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
1985 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. 1979 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
1986 1980 for more details. If unsure, say N.
1987 If unsure, say N.
1988 1981
1989config CIFS_UPCALL 1982config CIFS_UPCALL
1990 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1983 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"