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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 8cd2417a14db..d57f363ea1ab 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -1871,20 +1871,14 @@ config CIFS file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited - support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. - You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers - such as OS/2 and DOS. + support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced - network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, + network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional - packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, - and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable - cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both - smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 - and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need - to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. + packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. + If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. config CIFS_STATS bool "CIFS statistics" @@ -1977,14 +1971,13 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL help Enables cifs features under testing. These features are - experimental and currently include support for writepages - (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory - change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security - improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the - pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by - default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. - - If unsure, say N. + experimental and currently include DFS support and directory + change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall + mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation + and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on + setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental + (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README + for more details. If unsure, say N. config CIFS_UPCALL bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" |