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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 29 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 8cd2417a14db..d57f363ea1ab 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig | |||
@@ -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 | ||
1889 | config CIFS_STATS | 1883 | config 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 | ||
1989 | config CIFS_UPCALL | 1982 | config CIFS_UPCALL |
1990 | bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 1983 | bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" |