svn commit: samba-web r1037 - in trunk: .

sfrench at samba.org sfrench at samba.org
Sun Sep 17 00:46:26 GMT 2006


Author: sfrench
Date: 2006-09-17 00:46:25 +0000 (Sun, 17 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 1037

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=1037

Log:
update cifs vfs versions in linux cifs webpage

Modified:
   trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html
===================================================================
--- trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html	2006-09-05 12:43:53 UTC (rev 1036)
+++ trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html	2006-09-17 00:46:25 UTC (rev 1037)
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 <BODY onload="document.mirrorForm.mirrorLocation.selectedIndex=0"><BR>
 <BR>
 &nbsp;
-<P>LATEST UPDATES - mount.cifs mount helper now updated in Samba svn to version
-1.10. cifs vfs version 1.42 is accepted into mainline kernel. cifs vfs 1.42c is current in the cifs-2.6-stable.git tree.  Experimental CIFS Advisory locking code available in cifs client (1.42a or later) and Samba server (trunk).</P>
+<P>LATEST UPDATES - cifs vfs version 1.45 is accepted into mainline kernel (2.6.18) and includes full posix byte range locking support to current Samba servers, and also has much improved posix locking support to other servers, even those which do not support the CIFS POSIX protocol extensions.  cifs 1.45 also includes much improved support for legacy servers including OS/2 and Windows 9x.  A backported version of cifs 1.45 which builds on old kernel versions is also available. cifs vfs 1.46 is current in the cifs-2.6.git tree.</P>
 <TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0>
   <CAPTION>
   </CAPTION>
@@ -50,10 +49,10 @@
       and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version
       1.0 or later.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Popular servers such as Samba, Windows
       2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.&nbsp;&nbsp; The
-      CIFS&nbsp;VFS does not provide support for older servers based on the more
-      primitive SMB (Server Message Block) protocol (you can use the Linux filesystem
-      smbfs for these).&nbsp;&nbsp; CIFS VFS is designed to take advantage of
-      advanced network filesystem features such as locking, Unicode (advanced
+      CIFS&nbsp;VFS provides some support for older servers based on the more
+      primitive SMB (Server Message Block) protocol (you also can use the Linux filesystem
+      smbfs as an alternative for accessing these).&nbsp;&nbsp; CIFS VFS is designed to take
+      advantage of advanced network filesystem features such as locking, Unicode (advanced
       internationalization), hardlinks, dfs (heirarchical, replicated name space),
       distributed caching and uses native TCP names (rather than RFC1001, Netbios
       names).&nbsp; Unlike some other network filesystems all key network function
@@ -73,9 +72,9 @@
       &nbsp;
       <P>The current 2.4 version of the CIFS VFS is <A 
       href="http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.20c-2.4.tar.gz">1.20c</A> which was released in Jul , 2004 and the current 2.6.17-rc2 Linux version
-      of the cifs vfs is version 1.42. To download replacement files for the
+      of the cifs vfs is version 1.45. To download replacement files for the
       fs/cifs directory which includes a relatively recent version of the cifs
-      vfs click <A href="http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.42b.tar.gz">1.42b for 2.6 kernels</A> (released April 10th, 2006).<P>CIFS VFS is licensed under the <A 
+      vfs click <A href="http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.45.tar.gz">1.45 for 2.6 kernels</A> (released August 2nd, 2006).<P>CIFS VFS is licensed under the <A 
       href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</A> 
       version 2 or later.&nbsp;</P>
       </TD>



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