[Samba] Re: Weird authentication difference between smbclient and smbmount

taso ahg1 at aanet.com.au
Fri May 6 01:58:34 GMT 2005


Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> 
> I understand that smbfs supports some older SMB dialects that cifs 
> doesn't, but why the need for two modules? Couldn't they be merged somehow?
> 
> Just saying this because the existence of two different ways of mounting 
> smb shares, (apparently) very similar, is kind of confusing.
> 
> Just wanting some info.
> 

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