NSMB(4) | Device Drivers Manual | NSMB(4)

# 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⟩.

January 18, 2004 | NetBSD 9.5