Re: Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 11:17, Martin Drab wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:25, tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote:
>> >On 03/08/2005 17:03:04 linux-kernel-owner wrote:
>> >>Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem in the Linux kernel?
>> >
>> >It probably won't help you much, but I had the same problem few
>> > months ago. There was a bug in smbfs which I tried to discuss
>> > with someone, and after failing to contact the maintainer, I
>> > sent the fix to Linus. I don't think even he managed to get a
>> > response from Urban or someone else. The fix went in so I
>> > stopped chasing it.
>> >
>> >So it looks like smbfs is not maintained.
>>
>> I thought that originally was Andrew Tridgels output?
>>
>> I'm having problems with it too, but only on a deb3.1 system.  I
>> looked in Borders yesterday, but couldn't find a 'samba for
>> dummies' or similar publication.
>>
>> The question then is: Where might there be a decent publication
>> describing samba and how to make it work?  Dead tree, pdf equally
>> welcome here.
>
>Have you tried <http://www.samba.org> ?
>
Duh!  I'll go quietly.

>Martin

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