Q. Minimal smbfs installation

Urban Widmark urban at svenskatest.se
Fri May 5 09:11:46 GMT 2000


On Fri, 5 May 2000, Greg Ford wrote:

> I am trying to create a boot diskette(s) that is able to mount a remote
> drive (on an NT server) using smbfs. 
> I have tried doing this, but I can't fit smbd, nmbd, smbmount and smbumount
> all onto my root disk.

smbd, nmbd are servers and you shouldn't need them for a client.
smbmount and smbumount are needed (possibly not smbumount).


> Would I be better off using smbclient? ftp?

Is smbclient smaller than smbmount+smbfs? Then yes. :)
Is ftp smaller ...

/Urban



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