config SMB_FS tristate "SMB file system support (OBSOLETE, please use CIFS)" depends on INET select NLS help SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Windows for Workgroups (WfW), Windows 95/98, Windows NT and OS/2 Lan Manager use to share files and printers over local networks. Saying Y here allows you to mount their file systems (often called "shares" in this context) and access them just like any other Unix directory. Currently, this works only if the Windows machines use TCP/IP as the underlying transport protocol, and not NetBEUI. For details, read <file:Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt> and the SMB-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note: if you just want your box to act as an SMB *server* and make files and printing services available to Windows clients (which need to have a TCP/IP stack), you don't need to say Y here; you can use the program SAMBA (available from <ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/>) for that. General information about how to connect Linux, Windows machines and Macs is on the WWW at <http://www.eats.com/linux_mac_win.html>. To compile the SMB support as a module, choose M here: the module will be called smbfs. Most people say N, however. config SMB_NLS_DEFAULT bool "Use a default NLS" depends on SMB_FS help Enabling this will make smbfs use nls translations by default. You need to specify the local charset (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT) in the nls settings and you need to give the default nls for the SMB server as CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE. The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this. config SMB_NLS_REMOTE string "Default Remote NLS Option" depends on SMB_NLS_DEFAULT default "cp437" help This setting allows you to specify a default value for which codepage the server uses. If this field is left blank no translations will be done by default. The local codepage/charset default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT. The nls settings can be changed at mount time, if your smbmount supports that, using the codepage and iocharset parameters. smbmount from samba 2.2.0 or later supports this.