Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
version 3 of the NFS protocol.
- If unsure, say N.
+ If unsure, say Y.
config NFS_V4
bool "Provide NFSv4 client support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on NFS_FS && EXPERIMENTAL
+ select RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
help
Say Y here if you want your NFS client to be able to speak the newer
- version 4 of the NFS protocol. This feature is experimental, and
- should only be used if you are interested in helping to test NFSv4.
+ version 4 of the NFS protocol.
+
+ Note: Requires auxiliary userspace daemons which may be found on
+ http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
If unsure, say N.
tristate
config SUNRPC_GSS
- tristate "Provide RPCSEC_GSS authentication (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ tristate
+
+config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
+ tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
- default SUNRPC if NFS_V4=y
+ select SUNRPC_GSS
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_MD5
+ select CRYPTO_DES
help
- Provides cryptographic authentication for NFS rpc requests. To
- make this useful, you must also select at least one rpcsec_gss
- mechanism.
- Note: You should always select this option if you wish to use
+ Provides for secure RPC calls by means of a gss-api
+ mechanism based on Kerberos V5. This is required for
NFSv4.
-config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
- tristate "Kerberos V mechanism for RPCSEC_GSS (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on SUNRPC_GSS && CRYPTO_DES && CRYPTO_MD5
- default SUNRPC_GSS if NFS_V4=y
- help
- Provides a gss-api mechanism based on Kerberos V5 (this is
- mandatory for RFC3010-compliant NFSv4 implementations).
- Requires a userspace daemon;
- see http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/.
+ Note: Requires an auxiliary userspace daemon which may be found on
+ http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/
- Note: If you select this option, please ensure that you also
- enable the MD5 and DES crypto ciphers.
+ If unsure, say N.
config SMB_FS
tristate "SMB file system support (to mount Windows shares etc.)"