[Samba] [quick question] smbclient -m smb2 not working

[Michael Wood]

Hi

On 17 October 2011 11:35, David Roid <dataroid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> I just upgraded to samba 3.6.0 trying SMB2. Though Windows 2008 R2 can work
> with SMB2 shares just fine, I'm unable to access SMB2 shares with mount.cifs
> or smbclient, even with "-m smb2" specified -- I get this
>
> "Unrecognised protocol level smb2", whereas smbclient comes with
> samba-client-3.6.0-63.1.rpm.
>
> So is this supported yet (from client side) or I miss anything?

smbclient and mount.cifs are two different things.  mount.cifs is from
the cifs-utils project and is no longer part of Samba.  I suspect it
does not yet support SMB2.

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils

The mailing list is here:

http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-cifs

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>