patch-2.3.22 linux/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt

• Lines: 51
• Date: Tue Oct 12 22:56:16 1999
• Orig file: v2.3.21/linux/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt
• Orig date: Thu Apr 29 11:53:41 1999

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 protocol used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 and Windows NT.
 Smbfs was inspired by Samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell
 that turns any Unix host into a file server for DOS or Windows clients.
-See ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba/ for this interesting
-program suite and much more information on SMB, NetBIOS over TCP/IP,
-and explanations for concepts like netbios name or share.
 
-To use smbfs, you must first install the Samba package (Samba-1.9.18p1 or
-later). This package includes the special smbmount utility needed to mount
-smbfs volumes. Refer to the smbmount(8) and smbmnt(8) manpages for the
-details regarding smbfs mounts.
-
-The smbmount utility reads the Samba smb.conf config file for some of its
-options, and at least one of these is important for smbfs operation. You
-should enable the TCP_NODELAY socket option, or else directory listings
-will be dramatically slower (under Win NT at least).
-
-Mount-Time Options
-Windows 95 has several bugs that affect SMB operations, and smbfs includes
-work-arounds for all of the bugs found (so far, at least.) These can be
-enabled at compile-time with the CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 kernel option.
-
-Unfortunately, some of the Win 95 work-arounds interact with Win NT bugs,
-so if you're using several different types of servers on your network you
-probably want to enable the work-arounds at mount time. To do this, answer
-`N' to the CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 option, and add the needed options listed below
-to the file mode argument of the mount command for the Win 95 servers.
-
-Option                  Value  Effect
-Identify Win 95 Server    1    Enables bug fixes
-Use Core Attributes       2    Speeds up directory scans, only mtime
-Use Dir Attributes        4    Alternate way to get file attributes
-
-To apply the options, sum the values and prepend it to the file mode. For
-example, to use options 1 and 2 with file mode 755, you would specify 3755:
-
-	mount /mnt/tmp -f 3755
-
-Smbfs will print a message at mount time confirming the selected options.
-Note that _only_ Windows 95 servers require special treatment; using the
-"core attributes" option with Win NT will give trash timestamp values.
-
-To summarize, if your network includes both Win 95 and NT servers:
-(1) Do _not_ enable the CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 kernel option
-
-(2) Add the desired work-around options to the mount command for your
-    Win 95 server(s).
+Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for it's operation. For
+more info on samba, including documentation, please go to
+http://www.samba.org/ and then on to your nearest mirror.