[Samba] Re: cifs verses smbfs for Linux clients

Lukasz Szybalski szybalski at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 19:38:31 GMT 2008


On Feb 19, 2008 12:16 PM, Michael Lueck <mlueck at lueckdatasystems.com> wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> > Finally after searching for another 30min I found one example in which
> > domain option was added.
> > You need to add a domain option!
>
> That particular node making the cifs connection, what was that node's domain setting in its /etc/samba/smb.conf?
>
on my samba:

workgroup =  sat to my domain name
security = share

but even without samba after installing smbfs you should be able to
mount the drive. I don't think samba is required here, but I might be
wrong since I never tested it as I always have samba installed.


> On Linux client boxes, the only change I make to smb.conf is setting the domain name to the correct domain name.

Lucas


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