[Samba] Encrypted samba mount on Linux

Aurélien Aptel
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 11:08:15 -0000

As others have said, encryption support was merged upstream few monthes
ago ('seal' mount option).

Steve French via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
writes:
> Would be good to continue to encourage backports by the distros of recent
> kernel cifs, not just for encryption support, but also for SMB3 DFS support
> and various other features, and some very exciting patches are in progress
> for the upcoming kernels.

Can't talk about RHEL but cifs.ko comes with encryption support in
SLE12SP3 (</end_of_ad> :).

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