deprecating smbmount ?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 22:23 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:22:28AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 06/07/26 21:06 (GMT-0700) Jeremy Allison apparently typed:
> > 
> > > I just looked at the code. cifsfs seems already to have
> > > lanman support. Guenter, have you actually *tested* cifsfs
> > > against OS/2 ? I wouldn't be suprised if it works fine.
> > 
> > Doesn't work for me:
> > SuSE 10.1:
> > # cat /etc/fstab | grep cifs
> > //p-t18/G /smbmnt/p-t18/G cifs
> > ro,fmask=664,credentials=/etc/samba/p-t18.cred,noauto 0 0
> > # rpm -qa | grep samba-3
> > samba-3.0.22-13.18
> > kdebase3-samba-3.5.1-69
> > # uname -r
> > 2.6.16.21-0.13-default
> > # mount //p-t18/G
> > WARNING: 'fmask' not expressed in octal.
> > WARNING: CIFS mount option 'fmask' is deprecated. Use 'file_mode' instead.
> > mount error 112 = Host is down
> > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> 
> Ok then - where are the CIFSFS bug reports you posted
> on this ?
> 
> Remember, if we don't know it's broken, nothing gets
> fixed. If you want cifsfs to work again server X, log
> bugs. This code is being maintained and extended. smbfs
> is not. You may have a fondness for smbfs but no one is
> working on it. cifsfs has active maintainers.
> 
> You know what's going to happen, I suggest you prepare
> for it :-).

Is another possibility for some edge use cases the various FUSE
file-systems that call into libsmbclient?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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