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NAME
aquarela - CIFS server
SYNOPSIS
aquarela [ -np ] [ -d debug ] [ -u N ] [ -w workgroup ]
DESCRIPTION
Aquarela provides CIFS (once known as SMB) access to Plan 9 file
servers. It announces and subsequently listens on tcp!*!445 for con‐
nections to the file hierarchies called ‘shares' by CIFSUsers are au‐
thenticated with their APOP secret (see auth(8)). Each session is man‐
aged by a process running as the authenticated user. Two persistent
processes handle listening, session setup, and housekeeping.
An aquarela CIFS share corresponds to a directory under /n. A client
request for a specific share, say, share, causes aquarela to attempt a
9fs (in srv(4)) connection to the file server share. If connection
succeeds, a file hierarchy rooted at /n/share is presented to the
client. The client request fails otherwise. Requests for the protocol
equivalent of / are satisfied with a directory containing only the de‐
fault share, local.
The options are:
-n Enable limited NETBIOS service. Aquarela will register with the
‘master browser' for workgroup and listen on tcp!*!139 and
udp!*!13[7-9] for NETBIOS name resolution and session requests.
This works in tandem with a complete NETBIOS master name server,
like that provided by Unix nmbd(8). NETBIOS is not required for
CIFS file service.
-u N Send Unicode. For N, 1 enables, 0 disables Unicoding of file
names and metadata. There is no code page support, so aquarela
emits UTF if N is 0.
-w workgroup
Set workgroup (or ‘primary domain') of server. Default PLAN9.
EXAMPLE
To start CIFS service on system plan9:
% aquarela -u 1 &
To then make the dump filesystem available as drive Y: on a Windows ma‐
chine:
C:\>net use Y: \\plan9.example.com\dump
FILES
/n/local
Default CIFS share
/sys/log/aquarela
Log file
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/aquarela
SEE ALSO
auth(8), srv(4), utf(6)
DIAGNOSTICS
Log messages are appended to /sys/log/aquarela if it exists. The -p op‐
tion prints them on standard output as well. The -d option adds ver‐
bose output about debug to the log messages, where debug is one of:
allcmds
All CIFS requests and responses.
tids Connections and disconnections per-share.
sids Creation and deletion of search ids.
fids Creation and deletion of file ids.
rap2 RAP calls.
find Transaction2 find commands.
query Transaction2 query commands.
sharedfiles
All files opened.
poolparanoia
Draconian error checking in memory allocator.
sessions
Connections and disconnections on server.
rep Regular expression conversions.
locks Locking activity.
any-smb-name
Debug only SMB_ requests or transaction2 sub-requests (e.g.,
SMB_COM_SESSION_SETUP_ANDX or SMB_TRANS2_FIND_FIRST2) matching
symbolic name any-smb-name.
0xnn Debug only messages with hexadecimal id 0xnn.
BUGS
The first connection attempt to a share sometimes fails erroneously -
try again. The share disk space reported by some clients is inaccu‐
rate. Some clients can't rename directories. Write attempts without
sufficient permissions fail (correctly), but appear on client to tem‐
porarily succeed.
This program should probably be named cifsserver.
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