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32 .Nd kernel SMB protocol communicator
34 .Cd "pseudo-device nsmb"
36 This virtual device is used by SMBFS filesystem
37 for actual communication with SMB servers.
38 It provides the physical transportation, encapsulating the networking
40 Only SMB over TCP/IP is supported at this moment, SMB over NetBIOS
43 For the SMBFS kernel support to work, it's necessary
44 to have both this pseudo-device and file-system
45 SMBFS configured into kernel.
49 This driver first appeared in
53 this first appeared in
55 together with rest of SMBFS support.
58 .An Boris Popov Aq bp@butya.kz ,
66 .Aq jdolecek@NetBSD.org .