[Samba] Re: cifs verses smbfs for Linux clients

Michael Lueck mlueck at lueckdatasystems.com
Tue Feb 19 00:09:54 GMT 2008


Volker Lendecke wrote:
> The problem is -- where would you host smbmount if we
> removed it from the samba release?

hhhmmm, I see smbmount is indeed a file in the smbfs package.

So smbmount is relied on by cifs? In that case I can see the need to install smbfs in order to be able to "mount -t cifs".

Thanks,

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Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/



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