add support for CIFS Unix extensions to the kernel

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 13:45, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> The patch at 
> 
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/
> 
> adds support for the CIFS Unix extensions to the 2.4 SMBFS
> implementation.
> 
> This patch serves a real need: in many places users' homedirs (that
> are properly backed up) are on NFS servers, but the sysadmins don't
> allow people that administer their own Linux boxes/laptops to
> NFS-mount their UNIX homedir, they can only use SMB mounts to access
> their homedirs. 
> But SMB is inconvenient as chmod, symlinks, hardlinks, etc don't work.

Another CIFS implementation is already in the 2.6 kernel, and will
be enabled in FC2.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html

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