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