+ packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements,
+ and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable
+ cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
+ smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
+ and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
+ to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
+
+config CIFS_STATS
+ bool "CIFS statistics"
+ depends on CIFS
+ help
+ Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
+ mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
+
+config CIFS_STATS2
+ bool "Extended statistics"
+ depends on CIFS_STATS
+ help
+ Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
+ request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
+ allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
+ value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
+ These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
+ and memory utilization.
+
+ Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
+ or tuning, say N.
+
+config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH
+ bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security"
+ depends on CIFS
+ help
+ Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions
+ (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos)
+ security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely
+ than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the
+ SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers.
+
+ Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older
+ LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such
+ mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent
+ security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you
+ have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private
+ network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support
+ is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used
+ automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
+ can be set to required (or optional) either in
+ /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
+ option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
+ default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
+ attack.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+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, or visit
+ <http://acl.bestbits.at/> 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 N.
+
+config CIFS_POSIX
+ bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
+ depends on 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
+ support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers
+ (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate
+ CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N.
+
+config CIFS_DEBUG2
+ bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines"
+ depends on CIFS
+ 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.
+
+config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+ bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
+ help
+ Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
+ experimental and currently include support for writepages
+ (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
+ change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
+ improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
+ pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
+ default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config CIFS_UPCALL
+ bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
+ select CONNECTOR
+ help
+ Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
+ userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
+ tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
+ (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
+ unsure, say N.