[KLUG Members] hooking WinXP to samba network

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:03:05PM -0400, Adam Williams was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> Recent versions of GNOME (nautilus) have CIFS browsing built in as part
> of the VFS (just go smb:///)

Under Networking Filesystems (NFS, AFS &c.)

 CONFIG_CIFS:

   CIFS support (advanced network filesystem for Samba, Window and other
   CIFS compliant servers)(EXPERIMENTAL)

    This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
    (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
    (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early PC
    operating systems.  CIFS is fully supported by current network file
    servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows NT version 4 and
    Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server
    support for Linux and many other operating systems).  For production
    systems the smbfs module may be used instead of this cifs module
    since smbfs is currently more stable and provides support for older
    servers.  The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced
    network file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including
    support for dfs (heirarchical name space), secure per-user session
    establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
    signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, and
    optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration.  This module is in an early
    development stage, so unless you are specifically interested in this
    filesystem, just say N.


I think I'll compile it into my kernel and then just never use it, just
so Adam will be frothing at the mouth. ;-)

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