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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 488521ed9e9b..a722b5a3f752 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig | |||
@@ -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 | ||
1882 | config CIFS_STATS | 1876 | config 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 | ||
1982 | config CIFS_UPCALL | 1975 | config CIFS_UPCALL |
1983 | bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 1976 | bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" |