···11 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System22 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 33 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early44- PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network55- file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including 66- Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS44+ PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now55+ called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the66+ CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network77+ file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 201288+ as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS79 server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so810 this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of99- servers. The smbfs module should be used instead of this cifs module1010- for mounting to older SMB servers such as OS/2. The smbfs and cifs1111- modules can coexist and do not conflict. The CIFS VFS filesystem1212- module is designed to work well with servers that implement the1313- newer versions (dialects) of the SMB/CIFS protocol such as Samba, 1414- the program written by Andrew Tridgell that turns any Unix host 1515- into a SMB/CIFS file server.1111+ servers.16121713 The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network1814 file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better···2024 alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments,2125 not just in Linux to Windows environments.22262323- This filesystem has an optional mount utility (mount.cifs) that can2424- be obtained from the project page and installed in the path in the same2525- directory with the other mount helpers (such as mount.smbfs). 2626- Mounting using the cifs filesystem without installing the mount helper2727- requires specifying the server's ip address.2727+ This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from28282929- For Linux 2.4:3030- mount //anything/here /mnt_target -o3131- user=username,pass=password,unc=//ip_address_of_server/sharename2929+ https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/32303333- For Linux 2.5: 3434- mount //ip_address_of_server/sharename /mnt_target -o user=username, pass=password3131+ It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers.35323333+ For more information on the module see the project wiki page at36343737- For more information on the module see the project page at3838-3939- http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html 4040-4141- For more information on CIFS see:4242-4343- http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS4444-4545- or the Samba site:4646-4747- http://www.samba.org3535+ https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils