[Samba] cifs-utils with Samba 4.1.7 on Centos 6.5

JD Daniels jd at internetguys.ca
Fri Jan 22 17:10:25 UTC 2016


I have built Samba 4.1.7 from source on a CentOS 6.5 machine. The 
install is a functional domain controller and file server, no issues

I now need to mount a samba share from another machine, but cifs does 
not seem to be available. The cifs kernel module is available, but the 
helper mount.cifs is not.

Normally I would just install cifs-utils, but the dependencies are:

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
  Package Arch Version 
Repository                                           Size
=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
  cifs-utils x86_64 4.8.1-20.el6 
base                                                 65 k
Installing for dependencies:
  libtalloc x86_64 2.0.7-2.el6 
base                                                 20 k
  libtevent x86_64 0.9.18-3.el6 
base                                                 26 k
  samba-common x86_64 3.6.23-24.el6_7 
updates                                              10 M
  samba-winbind x86_64 3.6.23-24.el6_7 
updates                                             2.2 M
  samba-winbind-clients x86_64 3.6.23-24.el6_7 
updates                                             2.0 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Install       6 Package(s)


I configured with prefix=/usr, so I am worried that the 3.x packages 
will cause issues. The machine is in production, I am adding a new 
backup system.


Could someone advise me on how to get cifs mounts working?

--
JD



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