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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001The CIFS VFS support for Linux supports many advanced network filesystem
Uwe Kleine-König1b3c3712007-02-17 19:23:03 +01002features such as hierarchical dfs like namespace, hardlinks, locking and more.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07003It was designed to comply with the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference (which
4supersedes the 1992 X/Open SMB Standard) as well as to perform best practice
5practical interoperability with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Samba and equivalent
6servers.
7
8For questions or bug reports please contact:
9 sfrench@samba.org (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
10
11Build instructions:
12==================
13For Linux 2.4:
141) Get the kernel source (e.g.from http://www.kernel.org)
15and download the cifs vfs source (see the project page
16at http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html)
17and change directory into the top of the kernel directory
18then patch the kernel (e.g. "patch -p1 < cifs_24.patch")
19to add the cifs vfs to your kernel configure options if
20it has not already been added (e.g. current SuSE and UL
21users do not need to apply the cifs_24.patch since the cifs vfs is
22already in the kernel configure menu) and then
23mkdir linux/fs/cifs and then copy the current cifs vfs files from
24the cifs download to your kernel build directory e.g.
25
26 cp <cifs_download_dir>/fs/cifs/* to <kernel_download_dir>/fs/cifs
27
282) make menuconfig (or make xconfig)
293) select cifs from within the network filesystem choices
304) save and exit
315) make dep
326) make modules (or "make" if CIFS VFS not to be built as a module)
33
34For Linux 2.6:
Adrian Bunkdfc1e142005-05-05 16:15:51 -0700351) Download the kernel (e.g. from http://www.kernel.org)
36and change directory into the top of the kernel directory tree
37(e.g. /usr/src/linux-2.5.73)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700382) make menuconfig (or make xconfig)
393) select cifs from within the network filesystem choices
404) save and exit
415) make
42
43
44Installation instructions:
45=========================
46If you have built the CIFS vfs as module (successfully) simply
47type "make modules_install" (or if you prefer, manually copy the file to
48the modules directory e.g. /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.o).
49
50If you have built the CIFS vfs into the kernel itself, follow the instructions
51for your distribution on how to install a new kernel (usually you
52would simply type "make install").
53
54If you do not have the utility mount.cifs (in the Samba 3.0 source tree and on
55the CIFS VFS web site) copy it to the same directory in which mount.smbfs and
56similar files reside (usually /sbin). Although the helper software is not
57required, mount.cifs is recommended. Eventually the Samba 3.0 utility program
58"net" may also be helpful since it may someday provide easier mount syntax for
59users who are used to Windows e.g. net use <mount point> <UNC name or cifs URL>
60Note that running the Winbind pam/nss module (logon service) on all of your
61Linux clients is useful in mapping Uids and Gids consistently across the
62domain to the proper network user. The mount.cifs mount helper can be
63trivially built from Samba 3.0 or later source e.g. by executing:
64
65 gcc samba/source/client/mount.cifs.c -o mount.cifs
66
67If cifs is built as a module, then the size and number of network buffers
68and maximum number of simultaneous requests to one server can be configured.
69Changing these from their defaults is not recommended. By executing modinfo
70 modinfo kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko
71on kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko the list of configuration changes that can be made
72at module initialization time (by running insmod cifs.ko) can be seen.
73
74Allowing User Mounts
75====================
76To permit users to mount and unmount over directories they own is possible
77with the cifs vfs. A way to enable such mounting is to mark the mount.cifs
Steve French099a58f2005-04-28 22:41:07 -070078utility as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/mount.cifs). To enable users to
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070079umount shares they mount requires
801) mount.cifs version 1.4 or later
812) an entry for the share in /etc/fstab indicating that a user may
82unmount it e.g.
83//server/usersharename /mnt/username cifs user 0 0
84
85Note that when the mount.cifs utility is run suid (allowing user mounts),
86in order to reduce risks, the "nosuid" mount flag is passed in on mount to
87disallow execution of an suid program mounted on the remote target.
88When mount is executed as root, nosuid is not passed in by default,
89and execution of suid programs on the remote target would be enabled
90by default. This can be changed, as with nfs and other filesystems,
91by simply specifying "nosuid" among the mount options. For user mounts
92though to be able to pass the suid flag to mount requires rebuilding
93mount.cifs with the following flag:
94
95 gcc samba/source/client/mount.cifs.c -DCIFS_ALLOW_USR_SUID -o mount.cifs
96
97There is a corresponding manual page for cifs mounting in the Samba 3.0 and
98later source tree in docs/manpages/mount.cifs.8
99
Steve French099a58f2005-04-28 22:41:07 -0700100Allowing User Unmounts
101======================
102To permit users to ummount directories that they have user mounted (see above),
103the utility umount.cifs may be used. It may be invoked directly, or if
Steve French0cb766a2005-04-28 22:41:11 -0700104umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount can invoke the cifs umount helper
Steve French099a58f2005-04-28 22:41:07 -0700105(at least for most versions of the umount utility) for umount of cifs
Steve French0cb766a2005-04-28 22:41:11 -0700106mounts, unless umount is invoked with -i (which will avoid invoking a umount
107helper). As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked
108as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs") or equivalent (some distributions
109allow adding entries to a file to the /etc/permissions file to achieve the
110equivalent suid effect). For this utility to succeed the target path
111must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must match the uid
112of the user who mounted the resource.
Steve French099a58f2005-04-28 22:41:07 -0700113
114Also note that the customary way of allowing user mounts and unmounts is
115(instead of using mount.cifs and unmount.cifs as suid) to add a line
116to the file /etc/fstab for each //server/share you wish to mount, but
117this can become unwieldy when potential mount targets include many
118or unpredictable UNC names.
119
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700120Samba Considerations
121====================
122To get the maximum benefit from the CIFS VFS, we recommend using a server that
123supports the SNIA CIFS Unix Extensions standard (e.g. Samba 2.2.5 or later or
124Samba 3.0) but the CIFS vfs works fine with a wide variety of CIFS servers.
125Note that uid, gid and file permissions will display default values if you do
126not have a server that supports the Unix extensions for CIFS (such as Samba
1272.2.5 or later). To enable the Unix CIFS Extensions in the Samba server, add
128the line:
129
130 unix extensions = yes
131
132to your smb.conf file on the server. Note that the following smb.conf settings
133are also useful (on the Samba server) when the majority of clients are Unix or
134Linux:
135
136 case sensitive = yes
137 delete readonly = yes
138 ea support = yes
139
140Note that server ea support is required for supporting xattrs from the Linux
141cifs client, and that EA support is present in later versions of Samba (e.g.
1423.0.6 and later (also EA support works in all versions of Windows, at least to
143shares on NTFS filesystems). Extended Attribute (xattr) support is an optional
144feature of most Linux filesystems which may require enabling via
145make menuconfig. Client support for extended attributes (user xattr) can be
146disabled on a per-mount basis by specifying "nouser_xattr" on mount.
147
148The CIFS client can get and set POSIX ACLs (getfacl, setfacl) to Samba servers
149version 3.10 and later. Setting POSIX ACLs requires enabling both XATTR and
150then POSIX support in the CIFS configuration options when building the cifs
151module. POSIX ACL support can be disabled on a per mount basic by specifying
152"noacl" on mount.
153
154Some administrators may want to change Samba's smb.conf "map archive" and
155"create mask" parameters from the default. Unless the create mask is changed
156newly created files can end up with an unnecessarily restrictive default mode,
157which may not be what you want, although if the CIFS Unix extensions are
158enabled on the server and client, subsequent setattr calls (e.g. chmod) can
159fix the mode. Note that creating special devices (mknod) remotely
160may require specifying a mkdev function to Samba if you are not using
161Samba 3.0.6 or later. For more information on these see the manual pages
162("man smb.conf") on the Samba server system. Note that the cifs vfs,
163unlike the smbfs vfs, does not read the smb.conf on the client system
164(the few optional settings are passed in on mount via -o parameters instead).
165Note that Samba 2.2.7 or later includes a fix that allows the CIFS VFS to delete
166open files (required for strict POSIX compliance). Windows Servers already
167supported this feature. Samba server does not allow symlinks that refer to files
168outside of the share, so in Samba versions prior to 3.0.6, most symlinks to
169files with absolute paths (ie beginning with slash) such as:
170 ln -s /mnt/foo bar
171would be forbidden. Samba 3.0.6 server or later includes the ability to create
172such symlinks safely by converting unsafe symlinks (ie symlinks to server
173files that are outside of the share) to a samba specific format on the server
174that is ignored by local server applications and non-cifs clients and that will
175not be traversed by the Samba server). This is opaque to the Linux client
176application using the cifs vfs. Absolute symlinks will work to Samba 3.0.5 or
177later, but only for remote clients using the CIFS Unix extensions, and will
178be invisbile to Windows clients and typically will not affect local
179applications running on the same server as Samba.
180
181Use instructions:
182================
183Once the CIFS VFS support is built into the kernel or installed as a module
184(cifs.o), you can use mount syntax like the following to access Samba or Windows
185servers:
186
187 mount -t cifs //9.53.216.11/e$ /mnt -o user=myname,pass=mypassword
188
189Before -o the option -v may be specified to make the mount.cifs
190mount helper display the mount steps more verbosely.
191After -o the following commonly used cifs vfs specific options
192are supported:
193
194 user=<username>
195 pass=<password>
196 domain=<domain name>
197
198Other cifs mount options are described below. Use of TCP names (in addition to
199ip addresses) is available if the mount helper (mount.cifs) is installed. If
200you do not trust the server to which are mounted, or if you do not have
201cifs signing enabled (and the physical network is insecure), consider use
202of the standard mount options "noexec" and "nosuid" to reduce the risk of
203running an altered binary on your local system (downloaded from a hostile server
204or altered by a hostile router).
205
206Although mounting using format corresponding to the CIFS URL specification is
207not possible in mount.cifs yet, it is possible to use an alternate format
208for the server and sharename (which is somewhat similar to NFS style mount
209syntax) instead of the more widely used UNC format (i.e. \\server\share):
210 mount -t cifs tcp_name_of_server:share_name /mnt -o user=myname,pass=mypasswd
211
212When using the mount helper mount.cifs, passwords may be specified via alternate
213mechanisms, instead of specifying it after -o using the normal "pass=" syntax
214on the command line:
2151) By including it in a credential file. Specify credentials=filename as one
216of the mount options. Credential files contain two lines
217 username=someuser
218 password=your_password
2192) By specifying the password in the PASSWD environment variable (similarly
220the user name can be taken from the USER environment variable).
2213) By specifying the password in a file by name via PASSWD_FILE
2224) By specifying the password in a file by file descriptor via PASSWD_FD
223
224If no password is provided, mount.cifs will prompt for password entry
225
226Restrictions
227============
228Servers must support the NTLM SMB dialect (which is the most recent, supported
229by Samba and Windows NT version 4, 2000 and XP and many other SMB/CIFS servers)
230Servers must support either "pure-TCP" (port 445 TCP/IP CIFS connections) or RFC
2311001/1002 support for "Netbios-Over-TCP/IP." Neither of these is likely to be a
232problem as most servers support this. IPv6 support is planned for the future,
233and is almost complete.
234
235Valid filenames differ between Windows and Linux. Windows typically restricts
236filenames which contain certain reserved characters (e.g.the character :
237which is used to delimit the beginning of a stream name by Windows), while
238Linux allows a slightly wider set of valid characters in filenames. Windows
239servers can remap such characters when an explicit mapping is specified in
240the Server's registry. Samba starting with version 3.10 will allow such
241filenames (ie those which contain valid Linux characters, which normally
242would be forbidden for Windows/CIFS semantics) as long as the server is
243configured for Unix Extensions (and the client has not disabled
244/proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled).
245
246
247CIFS VFS Mount Options
248======================
249A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
250 user The user name to use when trying to establish
251 the CIFS session.
252 password The user password. If the mount helper is
253 installed, the user will be prompted for password
254 if it is not supplied.
255 ip The ip address of the target server
256 unc The target server Universal Network Name (export) to
257 mount.
258 domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the
259 username during CIFS session establishment
Steve French4523cc32007-04-30 20:13:06 +0000260 uid Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers
261 which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a
262 properly configured Samba server, the server provides
263 the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be
264 specified unless the server and clients uid and gid
265 numbering differ. If the server and client are in the
266 same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and
267 the server supports the Unix Extensions then the uid
268 and gid can be retrieved from the server (and uid
269 and gid would not have to be specifed on the mount.
270 For servers which do not support the CIFS Unix
271 extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on lookup
272 of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700273 who executed the mount (root, except when mount.cifs
274 is configured setuid for user mounts) unless the "uid="
275 (gid) mount option is specified. For the uid (gid) of newly
276 created files and directories, ie files created since
277 the last mount of the server share, the expected uid
Matt LaPlantecab00892006-10-03 22:36:44 +0200278 (gid) is cached as long as the inode remains in
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700279 memory on the client. Also note that permission
280 checks (authorization checks) on accesses to a file occur
281 at the server, but there are cases in which an administrator
282 may want to restrict at the client as well. For those
283 servers which do not report a uid/gid owner
284 (such as Windows), permissions can also be checked at the
285 client, and a crude form of client side permission checking
286 can be enabled by specifying file_mode and dir_mode on
Steve French6473a552005-11-29 20:20:10 -0800287 the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be
288 at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid
289 (or gid) in non-numberic form.
Steve French4523cc32007-04-30 20:13:06 +0000290 gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700291 file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
292 this overrides the default mode for file inodes.
293 dir_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server
294 this overrides the default mode for directory inodes.
295 port attempt to contact the server on this tcp port, before
296 trying the usual ports (port 445, then 139).
297 iocharset Codepage used to convert local path names to and from
298 Unicode. Unicode is used by default for network path
299 names if the server supports it. If iocharset is
300 not specified then the nls_default specified
301 during the local client kernel build will be used.
302 If server does not support Unicode, this parameter is
303 unused.
Steve French190fdeb2005-10-10 11:48:26 -0700304 rsize default read size (usually 16K)
305 wsize default write size (usually 16K, 32K is often better over GigE)
Steve French4ca9c192005-10-10 19:52:13 -0700306 maximum wsize currently allowed by CIFS is 57344 (14 4096 byte
307 pages)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700308 rw mount the network share read-write (note that the
309 server may still consider the share read-only)
310 ro mount network share read-only
311 version used to distinguish different versions of the
312 mount helper utility (not typically needed)
313 sep if first mount option (after the -o), overrides
314 the comma as the separator between the mount
315 parms. e.g.
316 -o user=myname,password=mypassword,domain=mydom
317 could be passed instead with period as the separator by
318 -o sep=.user=myname.password=mypassword.domain=mydom
319 this might be useful when comma is contained within username
320 or password or domain. This option is less important
321 when the cifs mount helper cifs.mount (version 1.1 or later)
322 is used.
323 nosuid Do not allow remote executables with the suid bit
324 program to be executed. This is only meaningful for mounts
325 to servers such as Samba which support the CIFS Unix Extensions.
326 If you do not trust the servers in your network (your mount
327 targets) it is recommended that you specify this option for
328 greater security.
329 exec Permit execution of binaries on the mount.
330 noexec Do not permit execution of binaries on the mount.
331 dev Recognize block devices on the remote mount.
332 nodev Do not recognize devices on the remote mount.
333 suid Allow remote files on this mountpoint with suid enabled to
334 be executed (default for mounts when executed as root,
335 nosuid is default for user mounts).
336 credentials Although ignored by the cifs kernel component, it is used by
337 the mount helper, mount.cifs. When mount.cifs is installed it
338 opens and reads the credential file specified in order
339 to obtain the userid and password arguments which are passed to
340 the cifs vfs.
341 guest Although ignored by the kernel component, the mount.cifs
342 mount helper will not prompt the user for a password
343 if guest is specified on the mount options. If no
344 password is specified a null password will be used.
345 perm Client does permission checks (vfs_permission check of uid
346 and gid of the file against the mode and desired operation),
347 Note that this is in addition to the normal ACL check on the
348 target machine done by the server software.
349 Client permission checking is enabled by default.
350 noperm Client does not do permission checks. This can expose
351 files on this mount to access by other users on the local
352 client system. It is typically only needed when the server
353 supports the CIFS Unix Extensions but the UIDs/GIDs on the
354 client and server system do not match closely enough to allow
Steve French6473a552005-11-29 20:20:10 -0800355 access by the user doing the mount, but it may be useful with
356 non CIFS Unix Extension mounts for cases in which the default
357 mode is specified on the mount but is not to be enforced on the
358 client (e.g. perhaps when MultiUserMount is enabled)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700359 Note that this does not affect the normal ACL check on the
360 target machine done by the server software (of the server
361 ACL against the user name provided at mount time).
362 serverino Use servers inode numbers instead of generating automatically
363 incrementing inode numbers on the client. Although this will
364 make it easier to spot hardlinked files (as they will have
365 the same inode numbers) and inode numbers may be persistent,
366 note that the server does not guarantee that the inode numbers
367 are unique if multiple server side mounts are exported under a
368 single share (since inode numbers on the servers might not
369 be unique if multiple filesystems are mounted under the same
370 shared higher level directory). Note that this requires that
371 the server support the CIFS Unix Extensions as other servers
372 do not return a unique IndexNumber on SMB FindFirst (most
373 servers return zero as the IndexNumber). Parameter has no
374 effect to Windows servers and others which do not support the
375 CIFS Unix Extensions.
376 noserverino Client generates inode numbers (rather than using the actual one
377 from the server) by default.
378 setuids If the CIFS Unix extensions are negotiated with the server
379 the client will attempt to set the effective uid and gid of
380 the local process on newly created files, directories, and
Steve French6473a552005-11-29 20:20:10 -0800381 devices (create, mkdir, mknod). If the CIFS Unix Extensions
382 are not negotiated, for newly created files and directories
Matt LaPlantecab00892006-10-03 22:36:44 +0200383 instead of using the default uid and gid specified on
Steve French6473a552005-11-29 20:20:10 -0800384 the mount, cache the new file's uid and gid locally which means
385 that the uid for the file can change when the inode is
386 reloaded (or the user remounts the share).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700387 nosetuids The client will not attempt to set the uid and gid on
388 on newly created files, directories, and devices (create,
389 mkdir, mknod) which will result in the server setting the
390 uid and gid to the default (usually the server uid of the
Steve French67594fe2005-05-17 13:04:49 -0500391 user who mounted the share). Letting the server (rather than
Steve French6473a552005-11-29 20:20:10 -0800392 the client) set the uid and gid is the default. If the CIFS
393 Unix Extensions are not negotiated then the uid and gid for
394 new files will appear to be the uid (gid) of the mounter or the
395 uid (gid) parameter specified on the mount.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700396 netbiosname When mounting to servers via port 139, specifies the RFC1001
397 source name to use to represent the client netbios machine
398 name when doing the RFC1001 netbios session initialize.
399 direct Do not do inode data caching on files opened on this mount.
400 This precludes mmaping files on this mount. In some cases
401 with fast networks and little or no caching benefits on the
402 client (e.g. when the application is doing large sequential
403 reads bigger than page size without rereading the same data)
404 this can provide better performance than the default
Steve French67594fe2005-05-17 13:04:49 -0500405 behavior which caches reads (readahead) and writes
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700406 (writebehind) through the local Linux client pagecache
407 if oplock (caching token) is granted and held. Note that
408 direct allows write operations larger than page size
409 to be sent to the server.
410 acl Allow setfacl and getfacl to manage posix ACLs if server
411 supports them. (default)
412 noacl Do not allow setfacl and getfacl calls on this mount
413 user_xattr Allow getting and setting user xattrs as OS/2 EAs (extended
414 attributes) to the server (default) e.g. via setfattr
415 and getfattr utilities.
Steve Frenchea4c07d2006-08-16 19:44:25 +0000416 nouser_xattr Do not allow getfattr/setfattr to get/set/list xattrs
Steve French737b7582005-04-28 22:41:06 -0700417 mapchars Translate six of the seven reserved characters (not backslash)
418 *?<>|:
Steve French6a0b4822005-04-28 22:41:05 -0700419 to the remap range (above 0xF000), which also
420 allows the CIFS client to recognize files created with
421 such characters by Windows's POSIX emulation. This can
422 also be useful when mounting to most versions of Samba
423 (which also forbids creating and opening files
424 whose names contain any of these seven characters).
425 This has no effect if the server does not support
426 Unicode on the wire.
427 nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default).
Steve Frenchc46fa8a2005-08-18 20:49:57 -0700428 nocase Request case insensitive path name matching (case
429 sensitive is the default if the server suports it).
Steve French82940a42006-03-02 03:24:57 +0000430 posixpaths If CIFS Unix extensions are supported, attempt to
431 negotiate posix path name support which allows certain
432 characters forbidden in typical CIFS filenames, without
433 requiring remapping. (default)
434 noposixpaths If CIFS Unix extensions are supported, do not request
435 posix path name support (this may cause servers to
436 reject creatingfile with certain reserved characters).
Steve Frenchc46fa8a2005-08-18 20:49:57 -0700437 nobrl Do not send byte range lock requests to the server.
438 This is necessary for certain applications that break
439 with cifs style mandatory byte range locks (and most
440 cifs servers do not yet support requesting advisory
441 byte range locks).
Steve French0cb766a2005-04-28 22:41:11 -0700442 remount remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts
443 or vice versa)
Steve French6473a552005-11-29 20:20:10 -0800444 sfu When the CIFS Unix Extensions are not negotiated, attempt to
445 create device files and fifos in a format compatible with
446 Services for Unix (SFU). In addition retrieve bits 10-12
447 of the mode via the SETFILEBITS extended attribute (as
Matt LaPlantecab00892006-10-03 22:36:44 +0200448 SFU does). In the future the bottom 9 bits of the
Steve French6473a552005-11-29 20:20:10 -0800449 mode also will be emulated using queries of the security
450 descriptor (ACL).
Steve French750d1152006-06-27 06:28:30 +0000451 sign Must use packet signing (helps avoid unwanted data modification
452 by intermediate systems in the route). Note that signing
453 does not work with lanman or plaintext authentication.
454 sec Security mode. Allowed values are:
Steve Frenchbf820672005-12-01 22:32:42 -0800455 none attempt to connection as a null user (no name)
456 krb5 Use Kerberos version 5 authentication
457 krb5i Use Kerberos authentication and packet signing
458 ntlm Use NTLM password hashing (default)
459 ntlmi Use NTLM password hashing with signing (if
460 /proc/fs/cifs/PacketSigningEnabled on or if
461 server requires signing also can be the default)
462 ntlmv2 Use NTLMv2 password hashing
463 ntlmv2i Use NTLMv2 password hashing with packet signing
Steve French189acaa2006-06-23 02:33:48 +0000464 lanman (if configured in kernel config) use older
465 lanman hash
Steve Frenchbf820672005-12-01 22:32:42 -0800466
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700467The mount.cifs mount helper also accepts a few mount options before -o
468including:
469
470 -S take password from stdin (equivalent to setting the environment
471 variable "PASSWD_FD=0"
472 -V print mount.cifs version
473 -? display simple usage information
474
475With recent 2.6 kernel versions of modutils, the version of the cifs kernel
476module can be displayed via modinfo.
477
478Misc /proc/fs/cifs Flags and Debug Info
479=======================================
480Informational pseudo-files:
481DebugData Displays information about active CIFS sessions
Steve French09d1db52005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700482 and shares, as well as the cifs.ko version.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700483Stats Lists summary resource usage information as well as per
484 share statistics, if CONFIG_CIFS_STATS in enabled
485 in the kernel configuration.
486
487Configuration pseudo-files:
488MultiuserMount If set to one, more than one CIFS session to
489 the same server ip address can be established
490 if more than one uid accesses the same mount
491 point and if the uids user/password mapping
492 information is available. (default is 0)
493PacketSigningEnabled If set to one, cifs packet signing is enabled
494 and will be used if the server requires
495 it. If set to two, cifs packet signing is
496 required even if the server considers packet
497 signing optional. (default 1)
Steve French254e55e2006-06-04 05:53:15 +0000498SecurityFlags Flags which control security negotiation and
499 also packet signing. Authentication (may/must)
500 flags (e.g. for NTLM and/or NTLMv2) may be combined with
501 the signing flags. Specifying two different password
502 hashing mechanisms (as "must use") on the other hand
503 does not make much sense. Default flags are
504 0x07007
505 (NTLM, NTLMv2 and packet signing allowed). Maximum
506 allowable flags if you want to allow mounts to servers
507 using weaker password hashes is 0x37037 (lanman,
508 plaintext, ntlm, ntlmv2, signing allowed):
509
510 may use packet signing 0x00001
511 must use packet signing 0x01001
512 may use NTLM (most common password hash) 0x00002
513 must use NTLM 0x02002
514 may use NTLMv2 0x00004
515 must use NTLMv2 0x04004
516 may use Kerberos security (not implemented yet) 0x00008
517 must use Kerberos (not implemented yet) 0x08008
518 may use lanman (weak) password hash 0x00010
519 must use lanman password hash 0x10010
520 may use plaintext passwords 0x00020
521 must use plaintext passwords 0x20020
522 (reserved for future packet encryption) 0x00040
523
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700524cifsFYI If set to one, additional debug information is
525 logged to the system error log. (default 0)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700526traceSMB If set to one, debug information is logged to the
527 system error log with the start of smb requests
528 and responses (default 0)
529LookupCacheEnable If set to one, inode information is kept cached
530 for one second improving performance of lookups
531 (default 1)
532OplockEnabled If set to one, safe distributed caching enabled.
533 (default 1)
534LinuxExtensionsEnabled If set to one then the client will attempt to
535 use the CIFS "UNIX" extensions which are optional
536 protocol enhancements that allow CIFS servers
537 to return accurate UID/GID information as well
538 as support symbolic links. If you use servers
539 such as Samba that support the CIFS Unix
540 extensions but do not want to use symbolic link
541 support and want to map the uid and gid fields
542 to values supplied at mount (rather than the
543 actual values, then set this to zero. (default 1)
Steve French60808232006-04-22 15:53:05 +0000544Experimental When set to 1 used to enable certain experimental
545 features (currently enables multipage writes
546 when signing is enabled, the multipage write
547 performance enhancement was disabled when
548 signing turned on in case buffer was modified
549 just before it was sent, also this flag will
550 be used to use the new experimental sessionsetup
551 code).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700552
553These experimental features and tracing can be enabled by changing flags in
554/proc/fs/cifs (after the cifs module has been installed or built into the
555kernel, e.g. insmod cifs). To enable a feature set it to 1 e.g. to enable
556tracing to the kernel message log type:
557
Steve French1047abc2005-10-11 19:58:06 -0700558 echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700559
Steve French1047abc2005-10-11 19:58:06 -0700560cifsFYI functions as a bit mask. Setting it to 1 enables additional kernel
561logging of various informational messages. 2 enables logging of non-zero
562SMB return codes while 4 enables logging of requests that take longer
563than one second to complete (except for byte range lock requests).
564Setting it to 4 requires defining CONFIG_CIFS_STATS2 manually in the
565source code (typically by setting it in the beginning of cifsglob.h),
566and setting it to seven enables all three. Finally, tracing
567the start of smb requests and responses can be enabled via:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700568
569 echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/traceSMB
570
571Two other experimental features are under development and to test
572require enabling CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
573
Steve French09d1db52005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700574 More efficient write operations
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700575
576 DNOTIFY fcntl: needed for support of directory change
577 notification and perhaps later for file leases)
578
579Per share (per client mount) statistics are available in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
580if the kernel was configured with cifs statistics enabled. The statistics
581represent the number of successful (ie non-zero return code from the server)
582SMB responses to some of the more common commands (open, delete, mkdir etc.).
583Also recorded is the total bytes read and bytes written to the server for
584that share. Note that due to client caching effects this can be less than the
585number of bytes read and written by the application running on the client.
586The statistics for the number of total SMBs and oplock breaks are different in
587that they represent all for that share, not just those for which the server
588returned success.
589
590Also note that "cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData" will display information about
591the active sessions and the shares that are mounted. Note: NTLMv2 enablement
Steve French09d1db52005-04-28 22:41:08 -0700592will not work since its implementation is not quite complete yet. Do not alter
593the ExtendedSecurity configuration value unless you are doing specific testing.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700594Enabling extended security works to Windows 2000 Workstations and XP but not to
595Windows 2000 server or Samba since it does not usually send "raw NTLMSSP"
596(instead it sends NTLMSSP encapsulated in SPNEGO/GSSAPI, which support is not
597complete in the CIFS VFS yet).