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  16 <P>LATEST UPDATES – cifs user's guide documentation is now
  17 available on samba.org.  cifs vfs version 1.50 is accepted into
  18 mainline kernel (2.6.23-rc1) and includes improved POSIX delete
  19 as well as bug fixes (e.g. for NTLMv2 signing).
  20 A backported version of cifs 1.50 which builds on old
  21 kernel versions is also available.</P>
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  32                         <P><A HREF="mailto:sfrench@samba.org">Questions to developers</A>&nbsp;
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  35                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/linux-cifs-client-guide.pdf">Documentation
  36                                 (CIFS Users Guide)</A></P>
  37                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="https://bugzilla.samba.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific∨der=relevance+desc&amp;bug_status=__open__∏uct=CifsVFS&amp;content=">Search
  38                                 for open bugs in bugzilla </A>
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  40                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="cifs/cifs_download.html">Download</A>
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  42                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="cifs/cifs_testing.html">CIFS
  43                                 Testing</A>
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  45                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Suggested test plan (under
  46                                 construction)
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  48                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-backport-old-kernels.git;a=blob;f=fs/cifs/README;hb=HEAD">Installation</A>&nbsp;
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  50                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-backport-old-kernels.git;a=blob;f=fs/cifs/TODO;hb=HEAD">Todo
  51                                 list</A>&nbsp;
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  53                                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/CIFS-TR-1p00_FINAL.pdf">SNIA
  54                                 CIFS Specification</A>&nbsp;
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  56                                 <LI><P><A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-backport-old-kernels.git;a=blob;f=fs/cifs/AUTHORS">Authors/Thanks</A><A HREF="http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/presentations/samba/ut_cifs.pdf">r<!-- Main Contents --></A>
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  61                         <P>The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access
  62                         to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS
  63                         Specification version 1.0 or later.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Popular
  64                         servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others
  65                         support CIFS by default.&nbsp;&nbsp; The CIFS&nbsp;VFS provides
  66                         some support for older servers based on the more primitive SMB
  67                         (Server Message Block) protocol (you also can use the Linux file
  68                         system smbfs as an alternative for accessing these).&nbsp;&nbsp;
  69                         CIFS VFS is designed to take advantage of advanced network file
  70                         system features such as locking, Unicode (advanced
  71                         internationalization), hardlinks, dfs (hierarchical, replicated
  72                         name space), distributed caching and uses native TCP names (rather
  73                         than RFC1001, Netbios names).&nbsp; Unlike some other network file
  74                         systems all key network function including authentication is
  75                         provided in kernel (and changes to mount and/or a mount helper
  76                         file are not required in order to enable the CIFS VFS). With the
  77                         addition of upcoming improvements to the mount helper (mount.cifs)
  78                         the CIFS VFS will be able to take advantage of the new CIFS URL
  79                         specification though.&nbsp;&nbsp; The TODO list includes some of
  80                         the other features being planned for future releases.&nbsp;&nbsp;
  81                         The CIFS VFS has been tested with Linux 2.4.14 and later as well
  82                         as regular testing on Linux 2.6 (and has been in the kernel source
  83                         starting with Linux kernel 2.5.42.  Testing has been done on various
  84                         hardware architectures including x86 and even big endian zSeries
  85                         hardware.&nbsp;&nbsp; The cifs and smbfs file systems can coexist
  86                         on the same system and do not conflict. <BR>&nbsp;
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  88                         <P>The current version of the CIFS VFS has been backported to
  89                         compile on 2.4 kernels, not just older 2.6. kernel versions). To
  90                         download replacement files for the fs/cifs directory which
  91                         includes a relatively recent version of the cifs vfs which has
  92                         been backported to build on various earlier kernels (2.6.14 or later) click <A HREF="http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.50c.tar.gz">cifs
  93                         1.50c for 2.6 kernels</A> (released July 25th, 2007).</P>
  94                         <P>CIFS VFS is licensed under the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU
  95                         General Public License</A> version 2 or later.&nbsp;</P>
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 101                         <P>Thanks to SNIA, IBM and the Samba Team<BR>&nbsp;<IMG SRC="samba/images/samba_banner.gif" NAME="graphics2" ALT="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/samba_banner.gif" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=60 BORDER=0>
 102                         <BR>for their assistance and support.</P>
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