[Samba] Probably a stupid question about smbfs and smb.conf.

[Joel Hammer]

I can't say in no way whatsoever, but, smbmount, at least originally, had
nothing to do with the samba people. smbmount was (and, I think, still is)
a linux thing, whereas samba was a unix thing, which also worked on linux.
So, the answer is, smbmount is likely not influenced much by smb.conf.

About tweaking for improved performance, I would 
man smbmount
/    ttl 
and
/socket

Joel



On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:10:54PM -0500, Kris Kelley wrote:
> This seems like it should have an obvious answer, but I haven't seen a
> clear word one way or the other in the man pages or other documentation
> that I have read - is smbmount's behavior in any way governed by the
> smb.conf file?
> 
> The reason I ask is one of the other sysadmins here has been trying to
> figure out ways to improve smbfs performance, and he came across the
> speed.txt file in Samba's documentation.  However, this file seems
> geared towards Samba being used as a server, which we do not do (we only
> use smbmount to mount Windows network shares as smbfs).  I wondered if
> any of the advice in that file might still apply to a Linux smbfs
> client, and that got me wondering if even anything at all in smb.conf
> applies to smbmount.
> 
> As a test, I tried mounting a Windows network share on linux
> workstation, after removing smb.conf.  smbmount complained about the
> missing configuration file, but the share was still successfully
> mounted.
> 
> So, really I have two questions.  1, does smbmount require smb.conf?  2,
> are there ways to tweak performance of an smbfs client, and if so, is
> there related documentation?
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> ---Kris Kelley
> 
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