THIS SITE IS NO LONGER UPDATED – Up-to-date information can be found under https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default. The CIFS VF