SMBFS(4)

💅 SMBFS(4) 💅

hey bestie, welcome to the Kernel Interfaces Manual — today’s main character is SMBFS(4), and we’re talking about the server message block (SMB1/CIFS) file system. iykyk? okay, let’s get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

smbfs — server message block (SMB1/CIFS) file system

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

okay so if you want 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"

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

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

The smbfs filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol. like, that’s the whole deal — SMBv1, no newer stuff. smbfs has known bugs and likely has security vulnerabilities. smbfs and userspace counterparts smbutil(1) and mount_smbfs(8) may be removed from a future version of FreeBSD. Users are advised to evaluate the filesystems/smbnetfs port instead. 💅

bestie, this is not a “maybe update later” situation — the page literally says known bugs and likely security vulnerabilities, and removal from a future FreeBSD is on the table. evaluate filesystems/smbnetfs instead, fr fr.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• smbutil(1)
• mount_smbfs(8)

🧚 STANDARDS 🧚

• 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.

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The smbfs device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4. iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

💜 AUTHORS 💜

The smbfs device driver was written by Boris Popov <bp@FreeBSD.org>.

The manual page was contributed by Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>.

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💖 and that’s the tea: Debian, April 6, 2022, page SMBFS(4) — bye bestie, mwah! 💖