smbfs patches (linux-2.2.19 and 2.0.7)

[Urban Widmark]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Giulio Orsero wrote:

> Since for now I'll stay with 2.2.x and 2.0.7, have I understood correctly that I
> need to:
> 1) kernel 2.2.19:
> no patch
> CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
> CONFIG_SMB_NLS_REMOTE="cp850"
> 2) samba
> no smbmount patch
> no need to use localpage and rmtpage
> 
> and it should work?
> 
> When I'll use samba-2.2.x with kernel 2.2.x it'll be the same, right?

Yes.

samba 2.2.x knows the formats expected by 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, and will do
"the right thing". smba 2.0.7 doesn't, but 2.4 knows about 2.0.7 and
accepts that format too. So all combinations should work, but only one
allows you to change things dynamically and per-mount.

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