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diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README index 080c5eba112b..4d01697722cc 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ b/fs/cifs/README @@ -257,13 +257,19 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: mount. domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the username during CIFS session establishment - uid If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server - this overrides the default uid for inodes. For mounts to - servers which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such - as a properly configured Samba server, the server provides - the uid, gid and mode. For servers which do not support - the Unix extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on - lookup of existing files is the uid (gid) of the person + uid Set the default uid for inodes. For mounts to servers + which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a + properly configured Samba server, the server provides + the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be + specified unless the server and clients uid and gid + numbering differ. If the server and client are in the + same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and + the server supports the Unix Extensions then the uid + and gid can be retrieved from the server (and uid + and gid would not have to be specifed on the mount. + For servers which do not support the CIFS Unix + extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on lookup + of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person who executed the mount (root, except when mount.cifs is configured setuid for user mounts) unless the "uid=" (gid) mount option is specified. For the uid (gid) of newly @@ -281,8 +287,7 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows: the client. Note that the mount.cifs helper must be at version 1.10 or higher to support specifying the uid (or gid) in non-numberic form. - gid If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server - this overrides the default gid for inodes. + gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above). file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server this overrides the default mode for file inodes. dir_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server @@ -467,7 +472,7 @@ including: -V print mount.cifs version -? display simple usage information -With recent 2.6 kernel versions of modutils, the version of the cifs kernel +With most 2.6 kernel versions of modutils, the version of the cifs kernel module can be displayed via modinfo. Misc /proc/fs/cifs Flags and Debug Info @@ -516,8 +521,22 @@ SecurityFlags Flags which control security negotiation and must use plaintext passwords 0x20020 (reserved for future packet encryption) 0x00040 -cifsFYI If set to one, additional debug information is - logged to the system error log. (default 0) +cifsFYI If set to non-zero value, additional debug information + will be logged to the system error log. This field + contains three flags controlling different classes of + debugging entries. The maximum value it can be set + to is 7 which enables all debugging points (default 0). + Some debugging statements are not compiled into the + cifs kernel unless CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2 is enabled in the + kernel configuration. cifsFYI may be set to one or + nore of the following flags (7 sets them all): + + log cifs informational messages 0x01 + log return codes from cifs entry points 0x02 + log slow responses (ie which take longer than 1 second) + CONFIG_CIFS_STATS2 must be enabled in .config 0x04 + + traceSMB If set to one, debug information is logged to the system error log with the start of smb requests and responses (default 0) |