NAME

nsmb — kernel SMB protocol communicator

SYNOPSIS

pseudo-device nsmb

DESCRIPTION

This virtual device is used by SMBFS filesystem for actual communication with SMB servers. It provides the physical transportation, encapsulating the networking part of SMBFS. Only SMB over TCP/IP is supported at this moment, SMB over NetBIOS is not supported.

For the SMBFS kernel support to work, it's necessary to have both this pseudo-device and file-system SMBFS configured into kernel.

SEE ALSO

mount_smbfs(8)

HISTORY

This driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4. In NetBSD, this first appeared in NetBSD 2.0, together with rest of SMBFS support.

AUTHORS

Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, <bp@FreeBSD.org>. NetBSD port done by Matt Debergalis <deberg@NetBSD.org> and Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>.