[Samba] Re: cifs verses smbfs for Linux clients

[Guenter Kukkukk]

Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2008 schrieb Michael Lueck:
> simo wrote:
> 
> > There is no interdependency at all, when compiling samba you can choose
> > to build either or both helpers, it is a packaging choice. Most
> > distributions are slowly killing smbfs and stopping building the
> > smbmount helper in the samba packages.
> 
> I unmounted all cifs connections, then I purged the smbfs package off of my Ubuntu 7.04 desktop.
> 
> I tried mounting connections:
> 
> /bin/mount -t cifs -o credentials=/home/mdlueck/.smbcredentials,uid=mdlueck,gid=mdlueck //ldslnx01/data /mnt/ldslnx01/data/
> 
> And received this type of error:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //ldslnx01/data,
>         missing codepage or other error
>         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>         dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> Thus, the dependency I was referring to. I do not like to be one to argue. (shrug)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Michael Lueck
> Lueck Data Systems
> http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
> 

What kind of smb server is running //ldslnx01/data  ?

Cheers, Guenter