Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 19:58:17 Bill Davidsen wrote:
It's nice to be cutting edge, but Fedora has a habit of killing the old
(working) way to do things. This is a case in point, the developers bright
shiny machines may all use cifs instead of smb, but old servers seem not
to.
smbmount has been deprecated and cifs been preferred for a long time - a
couple of years, I'd guess. It's part of samba development, not Fedora's
whim.
I doubt that the samba team force Fedora to compile without smbmount support in
the kernel or to leave it out of a default install. If you need to talk to a
system which speaks smb, cifs doesn't cut it, whereas I believe that any system
which use cifs will also do smb. My limited understanding make it look like a
subset thing.
If you need smbmount, then you have to either build everything yourself or go to
another distribution. The protocols seem to be different in practice.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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