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+ 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. New and improved versions of CIFS are now
+ called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the
+ CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network
+ file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012
+ as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
+ server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so
+ this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of
+ servers.
+
+ The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network
+ file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better
+ POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high
+ performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
+ signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization
+ improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support
+ the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable
+ alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments,
+ not just in Linux to Windows environments.
+
+ This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from
+
+ https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
+
+ It must be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers.
+
+ For more information on the module see the project wiki page at
+
+ https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils