deprecating smbmount ?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:06:01AM +0200, Guenter Kukkukk wrote:
> 
> Just some clarifications.
> OS/2 and its successor eComStation do only support SMB-dialects up to
> LANMAN2.1!
> So cifs definately _cannot_ be used in those environments.

cifs in this case is just a name. The new cifsfs kernel code
could easily be changed to use the SMB calls of older dialects.

> So I think, leave the 'samba related smbfs tools' in place - for some more
> months or more ...
> 
> And Steven French from IBM should be able to convince the kernel teams
> to leave smbfs in place for some more time ...

It's easier to fix cifsfs to use LANMAN2.1 and remove smbfs
than to leave smbfs in place (IMHO).

Jeremy.