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[Chris Wiegand]

Okay, okay, sorry for the flame. This is a work server and I've been using a
1.9x smbmount with kernel 2.0, which works fine. When I upgraded to kernel
2.2, I had to upgrade my smbmount, and nothing in the README file said the
smbmount command changed. <sheepish grin> I should have looked before I
leaped. How is work going on smbsh? The concept does sound appealing,
however, it always segfaults for me. Again, I apologize for my flame.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael H. Warfield [mailto:mhw at wittsend.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 11:09 AM
To: cwiegand at startek.com
Cc: samba at samba.org
Subject: Re: your mail


Chris Wiegand enscribed thusly:
> Can someone explain why smbmount under Samba-2.0.3 (compiled under
GNU/Linux
> Slackware, kernel 2.2.5, egcc 2.90.29) compiles smbmount, however, when I
> run smbmount, it's really smbclient? If I can't use smbmount, then I can't
> mount my NT server. smbsh isn't worth crap, it always segfaults on me. I'm
> running libc5.5.46. Can anyone help me?

	You might try "man smbmount" for openers...

	The newer smbmount is based on smbclient.  As a consequence, it
inherited much of the look and feel of smbclient.  It is not smbclient.
Repeat after me...  It is not smbclient...  You only think it is.  It
only recognizes the mount command and if you are not specifying the
-c "mount /mount-point" parameter to smbmount, then you are probably
have more than that screwed up.  The syntax to the newer smbmount is
more akin to the syntax of smbclient and is different than the syntax
the old smbmount.

	I hope to get a syntax compatibility mode into smbmount eventually
but next order of business is to totally disable that smbclient-like
interactive mode, since it's obviously just confusing the bejesus out
of everyone and is needless anyways since only one command is supported.

> "There are 3 things to remember about being a Starship Captain:
>  Keep your shirt tucked in, go down with the ship, and never,
>  ever abandon a member of your crew."
>                         -- Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager

	Mike
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