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

David Roid dataroid at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 04:17:49 MDT 2011


Thanks, Michael. But in my case, neither of smbclient/mount.cifs works with
SMB2.

-David

2011/10/17 Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>

> 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>
>


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