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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.
 
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>.