[Samba] smbmount - again

David Morel david.morel at amakuru.net
Wed Mar 12 20:32:09 GMT 2003


Gurnish Anand wrote:
> No...nfs is a part of the kernel..and not samba
> 
> David Morel wrote:
> 
> 
>>>SMB is a better choice than NFS for many reasons,
>>>especially for the fact that its user based and not
>>>kernal based
>>
>>er... smbfs is part of the kernel as far as i know...
>>
>>David

okay, let's rephrase that: smbmount is a wrapper which uses smbfs which 
  IS a kernel fs module. smbmount does not use the samba suite, or to a 
limited extent only. The client part in the samba package is smbclient, 
which itself has nothing to see whith smbfs. I might be wrong though..

David.






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