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@@ -1864,20 +1864,14 @@ config CIFS
1864 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 1864 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
1865 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 1865 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
1866 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 1866 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
1867 support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. 1867 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
1868 You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
1869 such as OS/2 and DOS.
1870 1868
1871 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced 1869 The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
1872 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, 1870 network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
1873 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 1871 including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
1874 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional 1872 session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional
1875 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, 1873 packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements.
1876 and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable 1874 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1877 cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
1878 smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
1879 and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
1880 to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
1881 1875
1882config CIFS_STATS 1876config CIFS_STATS
1883 bool "CIFS statistics" 1877 bool "CIFS statistics"
@@ -1970,14 +1964,13 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
1970 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 1964 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
1971 help 1965 help
1972 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 1966 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
1973 experimental and currently include support for writepages 1967 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory
1974 (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory 1968 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall
1975 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security 1969 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation
1976 improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the 1970 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on
1977 pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by 1971 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental
1978 default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. 1972 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README
1979 1973 for more details. If unsure, say N.
1980 If unsure, say N.
1981 1974
1982config CIFS_UPCALL 1975config CIFS_UPCALL
1983 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1976 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"