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

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Tue Apr 21 08:23:57 GMT 2009


On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:09:12 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de> wrote:

> Hi Steve, Jeff,
> 
> If the following mount.cifs doc patch makes sense, can this be
> considered for merging? I have seen atleast a couple of bug reports that
> reports that cifs is not honoring configuration setting in smb.conf.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> > 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
						  ^^^^^^^
					Should be "honour"
> > +	configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those client tools,
> > +	<emphasis>mount.cifs</emphasis> ignores smb.conf completely.
> > +	</para>
> > +
> >  </refsect1>
> >  
> >  <refsect1>

Maybe this should go in the NOTES section?
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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