[Samba] cifs verses smbfs for Linux clients

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Feb 19 09:08:32 GMT 2008


On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:25:00AM +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> > The problem is -- where would you host smbmount if we
> > removed it from the samba release?
> 
> There may be another problem: "mount.smbfs" works on my machine(s),  
> "mount.cifs" doesn't.
> Maybe it depends on the OS on the other machine - Windows 9x may not  
> accept cifs. And I have some Windows 9x machines.

Ping Steve about these things. smbfs *will* be removed.

Volker
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