[Samba] Difference between smbclient&smbmount

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Jun 1 14:00:41 GMT 2005


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Baptiste Mathus wrote:

|> Nope.  smbclient and the kernel smbfs module use
|> different code.  smbfs does not support smb signing.
|> The cifs fs does though from what I remember.
|
| Weird ? Why develop two different access ways for
| finally accessing same type of target ?!
|
| Historical reasons ?

Kernel code is very different from user-space code.
And currently we are not the maintainers of the kernel
code.






cheers, jerry
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