NAME

smbfs —

SMB FS

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

option NETSMB

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

smbfs_load="YES"

The SMB driver is an implementation of the CIFS (Common Internet Filesystem) network protocol.

Common Internet File System (CIFS) Protocol, MS-CIFS, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-cifs/, December 2018.

I. Heizer, P. Leach, and D. Perry, Common Internet File System Protocol (CIFS/1.0), https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-heizer-cifs-v1-spec-00, June 13, 1996.

The smbfs device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4.

The smbfs device driver was written by Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.org>. The manual page was contributed by
Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>.