MOUNT.CIFS,(MOUNT.SMB3)

NAME
mount.cifs, mount.smb3 - mount using the Common Internet File System (CIFS)

SYNOPSIS

This man page was abbreviated for the Lintian test suite.

mount.cifs mounts a CIFS or SMB3 filesystem from Linux. It is usually invoked indirectly by the mount(8) command when using the "-t cifs" option. This command only works in Linux, and the kernel must support the cifs filesystem. The SMB3 protocol is the successor to the CIFS (SMB) protocol and is supported by most Windows servers, Azure (cloud storage), Macs and many other commercial servers and Network Attached Storage appliances as well as by the popular Open Source server Samba.

SEE ALSO

cifs.upcall(8), getcifsacl(1), setcifsacl(1)

Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt and fs/cifs/README in the Linux kernel source tree may contain additional options and information.

AUTHOR

Steve French

The maintainer of the Linux cifs vfs is Steve French. The maintainer of the cifs-utils suite of user space tools is Pavel Shilovsky. The Linux CIFS Mailing list is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs.