[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] doc: clarify that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf

Suresh Jayaraman sjayaraman at suse.de
Tue Apr 14 10:44:38 GMT 2009


It seems that for some users that are used to smbclient, it is not clear
that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf for configuring client specific
parameters. So, let's add this information to mount.cifs man page.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de>
---

 docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
index d0affea..32b2970 100644
--- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ kernel log.
 		the mounted resource is unmounted (usually via the umount utility).
 	</para>
 
+	<para>
+	Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honours client-side
+	configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those client tools,
+	<emphasis>mount.cifs</emphasis> ignores smb.conf completely.
+	</para>
+
 </refsect1>
 
 <refsect1>


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