1config CIFS 2 tristate "CIFS support (advanced network filesystem, SMBFS successor)" 3 depends on INET 4 select NLS 5 select CRYPTO 6 select CRYPTO_MD4 7 select CRYPTO_MD5 8 select CRYPTO_HMAC 9 select CRYPTO_ARC4 10 help 11 This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System 12 (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block 13 (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early 14 PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by 15 file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 16 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS 17 server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited 18 support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as 19 well. 20 21 The cifs module provides an advanced network file system 22 client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes 23 support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user 24 session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, 25 safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet 26 signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. 27 If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. 28 29config CIFS_STATS 30 bool "CIFS statistics" 31 depends on CIFS 32 help 33 Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share 34 mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats 35 36config CIFS_STATS2 37 bool "Extended statistics" 38 depends on CIFS_STATS 39 help 40 Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB 41 request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also 42 allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the 43 value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). 44 These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance 45 and memory utilization. 46 47 Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis 48 or tuning, say N. 49 50config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH 51 bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" 52 depends on CIFS 53 help 54 Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions 55 (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) 56 security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely 57 than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the 58 SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to 59 establish sessions with some old SMB servers. 60 61 Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older 62 LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such 63 mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent 64 security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you 65 have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private 66 network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support 67 is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be 68 used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but 69 can be set to required (or optional) either in 70 /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an 71 option on the mount command. This support is disabled by 72 default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade 73 attack. 74 75 If unsure, say N. 76 77config CIFS_UPCALL 78 bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup" 79 depends on CIFS && KEYS 80 select DNS_RESOLVER 81 help 82 Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses userspace helper 83 utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) Kerberos tickets 84 which are needed to mount to certain secure servers (for which more 85 secure Kerberos authentication is required). If unsure, say N. 86 87config CIFS_XATTR 88 bool "CIFS extended attributes" 89 depends on CIFS 90 help 91 Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by 92 the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page, or visit 93 <http://acl.bestbits.at/> for details). CIFS maps the name of 94 extended attributes beginning with the user namespace prefix 95 to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows servers without the 96 user namespace prefix, but their names are seen by Linux cifs clients 97 prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace 98 (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at 99 this time. 100 101 If unsure, say N. 102 103config CIFS_POSIX 104 bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" 105 depends on CIFS_XATTR 106 help 107 Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to 108 negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 109 or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather 110 than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables 111 support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers 112 (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate 113 CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. 114 115config CIFS_DEBUG2 116 bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" 117 depends on CIFS 118 help 119 Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines 120 to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of 121 the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug 122 messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This 123 option can be turned off unless you are debugging 124 cifs problems. If unsure, say N. 125 126config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL 127 bool "DFS feature support" 128 depends on CIFS && KEYS 129 select DNS_RESOLVER 130 help 131 Distributed File System (DFS) support is used to access shares 132 transparently in an enterprise name space, even if the share 133 moves to a different server. This feature also enables 134 an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace helper 135 utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to 136 IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction 137 points. If unsure, say N. 138 139config CIFS_FSCACHE 140 bool "Provide CIFS client caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 141 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 142 depends on CIFS=m && FSCACHE || CIFS=y && FSCACHE=y 143 help 144 Makes CIFS FS-Cache capable. Say Y here if you want your CIFS data 145 to be cached locally on disk through the general filesystem cache 146 manager. If unsure, say N. 147 148config CIFS_ACL 149 bool "Provide CIFS ACL support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 150 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && CIFS_XATTR 151 help 152 Allows to fetch CIFS/NTFS ACL from the server. The DACL blob 153 is handed over to the application/caller. 154 155config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL 156 bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)" 157 depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL 158 help 159 Enables cifs features under testing. These features are 160 experimental and currently include DFS support and directory 161 change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall 162 mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation 163 and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on 164 setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental 165 (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README 166 for more details. If unsure, say N. 167 168