[Samba] forcing XP clients to use CIFS

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Aug 30 06:12:53 GMT 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 21:48 +0200, Jax wrote:
> Hi Guys!
> 
> Anyone know how can I do this trick?
> I guess there is a registry value for it. As I noticed winxp try to use 
> smbfs first not cifs. In linux it's easier because you can choose when 
> you mount your shares.

smbfs v cifsvfs is a matter of two implementations of the protocol
client, that happen to exist in the Linux Kernel.  

Windows XP only has one CIFS client, there is nothing to choose. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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