secure Kerberos authentication is required). If unsure, say Y.
config CIFS_XATTR
- bool "CIFS extended attributes"
- depends on CIFS
- help
- Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
- the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page for details).
- CIFS maps the name of extended attributes beginning with the user
- namespace prefix to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows
- servers without the user namespace prefix, but their names are
- seen by Linux cifs clients prefaced by the user namespace prefix.
- The system namespace (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is
- not supported at this time.
-
- If unsure, say Y.
+ bool "CIFS extended attributes"
+ depends on CIFS
+ help
+ Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
+ the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page for details).
+ CIFS maps the name of extended attributes beginning with the user
+ namespace prefix to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows
+ servers without the user namespace prefix, but their names are
+ seen by Linux cifs clients prefaced by the user namespace prefix.
+ The system namespace (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is
+ not supported at this time.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
config CIFS_POSIX
- bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
- depends on CIFS && CIFS_ALLOW_INSECURE_LEGACY && CIFS_XATTR
- help
- Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
+ bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
+ depends on CIFS && CIFS_ALLOW_INSECURE_LEGACY && CIFS_XATTR
+ help
+ Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5
or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather
than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables
CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_ACL
- bool "Provide CIFS ACL support"
- depends on CIFS_XATTR && KEYS
- help
- Allows fetching CIFS/NTFS ACL from the server. The DACL blob
- is handed over to the application/caller. See the man
- page for getcifsacl for more information. If unsure, say Y.
+ bool "Provide CIFS ACL support"
+ depends on CIFS_XATTR && KEYS
+ help
+ Allows fetching CIFS/NTFS ACL from the server. The DACL blob
+ is handed over to the application/caller. See the man
+ page for getcifsacl for more information. If unsure, say Y.
config CIFS_DEBUG
bool "Enable CIFS debugging routines"
default y
depends on CIFS
help
- Enabling this option adds helpful debugging messages to
- the cifs code which increases the size of the cifs module.
- If unsure, say Y.
+ Enabling this option adds helpful debugging messages to
+ the cifs code which increases the size of the cifs module.
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
config CIFS_DEBUG2
bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
depends on CIFS_DEBUG
help
- Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
- to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
- the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
- messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
- option can be turned off unless you are debugging
- cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
+ Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines
+ to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of
+ the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug
+ messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This
+ option can be turned off unless you are debugging
+ cifs problems. If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_DEBUG_DUMP_KEYS
bool "Dump encryption keys for offline decryption (Unsafe)"
depends on CIFS_DEBUG
help
- Enabling this will dump the encryption and decryption keys
- used to communicate on an encrypted share connection on the
- console. This allows Wireshark to decrypt and dissect
- encrypted network captures. Enable this carefully.
- If unsure, say N.
+ Enabling this will dump the encryption and decryption keys
+ used to communicate on an encrypted share connection on the
+ console. This allows Wireshark to decrypt and dissect
+ encrypted network captures. Enable this carefully.
+ If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
- bool "DFS feature support"
- depends on CIFS && KEYS
- select DNS_RESOLVER
- help
- Distributed File System (DFS) support is used to access shares
- transparently in an enterprise name space, even if the share
- moves to a different server. This feature also enables
- an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace helper
- utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to
- IP addresses) which is needed in order to reconnect to
- servers if their addresses change or for implicit mounts of
- DFS junction points. If unsure, say Y.
+ bool "DFS feature support"
+ depends on CIFS && KEYS
+ select DNS_RESOLVER
+ help
+ Distributed File System (DFS) support is used to access shares
+ transparently in an enterprise name space, even if the share
+ moves to a different server. This feature also enables
+ an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace helper
+ utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to
+ IP addresses) which is needed in order to reconnect to
+ servers if their addresses change or for implicit mounts of
+ DFS junction points. If unsure, say Y.
config CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT
- bool "Allow nfsd to export CIFS file system"
- depends on CIFS && BROKEN
- help
- Allows NFS server to export a CIFS mounted share (nfsd over cifs)
+ bool "Allow nfsd to export CIFS file system"
+ depends on CIFS && BROKEN
+ help
+ Allows NFS server to export a CIFS mounted share (nfsd over cifs)
config CIFS_SMB_DIRECT
bool "SMB Direct support (Experimental)"
say N.
config CIFS_FSCACHE
- bool "Provide CIFS client caching support"
- depends on CIFS=m && FSCACHE || CIFS=y && FSCACHE=y
- help
- Makes CIFS FS-Cache capable. Say Y here if you want your CIFS data
- to be cached locally on disk through the general filesystem cache
- manager. If unsure, say N.
-
+ bool "Provide CIFS client caching support"
+ depends on CIFS=m && FSCACHE || CIFS=y && FSCACHE=y
+ help
+ Makes CIFS FS-Cache capable. Say Y here if you want your CIFS data
+ to be cached locally on disk through the general filesystem cache
+ manager. If unsure, say N.