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.Dd September 9, 2009
.Dt SMBFS 4FS
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm smbfs
.Nd CIFS/SMB file system
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
file system allows you to mount CIFS shares that are exported from Windows or
compatible systems.
SMB is the historical name for the CIFS protocol, which stands for Server
Message Block and is more commonly used in technical contexts.
.Pp
The
.Nm
file system permits ordinary UNIX applications to change directory into an
.Nm
mount and perform simple file and directory operations.
Supported operations include
.Xr open 2 ,
.Xr close 2 ,
.Xr read 2 ,
.Xr write 2 ,
.Xr rename 2 ,
.Xr rm 1 ,
.Xr mkdir 1 ,
.Xr rmdir 1 ,
and
.Xr ls 1 .
.Ss Limitations
Some local UNIX file systems
.Pq for example UFS
have features that are not supported by
.Nm .
These include:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
No mapped-file access because
.Xr mmap 2
returns
.Er ENOSYS .
.It
Locking is
.Sy local only
and is not sent to the server.
.El
.Pp
The following are limitations in the CIFS protocol:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
.It
.Xr unlink 2
or
.Xr rename 2
of open files returns
Er EBUSY .
.It
.Xr rename 2
of extended attribute files returns
.Er EINVAL .
.It
Creation of files with any of the following illegal characters returns
.Er EINVAL :
colon
.Pq \&: ,
backslash
.Pq \e ,
slash
.Pq / ,
asterisk
.Pq * ,
question mark
.Pq \&? ,
double quote
.Pq \(dq ,
less than
.Pq \(la ,
greater than
.Pq \(ra ,
and vertical bar
.Pq | .
.It
.Xr chmod 2
and
.Xr chown 2
settings are silently discarded.
.It
Links are not supported.
.It
Symbolic links are not supported.
.It
.Xr mknod 2
is not supported.
.Pq Only file and directory objects are supported.
.El
.Pp
The current
.Nm
implementation does not support multi-user mounts.
Instead, each Unix user needs to make their own private mount points.
.Pp
Currently, all access through an
.Nm
mount point uses the Windows credentials established by the user that ran the
.Xr mount 8
command.
Normally, permissions on
.Nm
mount points should be
.Sy 0700
to prevent Unix users from using each others' Windows credentials.
See the
.Ar dirperms
option to
.Xr mount_smbfs 8
for details regarding how to control
.Nm
mount point permissions.
.Pp
An important implication of this limitation is that system-wide mounts, such as
those made using
.Pa /etc/vfstab
or automount maps are only useful in cases where access control is not a
concern, such as for public read-only resources.
.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY
.Sy Uncommitted
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr smbutil 1 ,
.Xr nsmbrc 5 ,
.Xr attributes 7 ,
.Xr mount 8 ,
.Xr mount_smbfs 8