Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : So what is the ksmbfs pkg for anyway? : : I think that the ksmbfs stuff got merged in samba a few versions : back. Perhaps the ksmbfs package will disappear eventually.
To summarize: Package samba: it allows to convert your Linux box in a SMB server, just like Windows 95 and NT computers (NT Domain support is not there yet although the Samba team are working on ti - this will allow you to get rid of Windows NT boxes that are PDC and BDC for domains). The smbclient program is part of the Samba package. Status: current and maintained. Package smbfs: smbmount and smbumount userland utilities that allow you to mount a smbfs file system. This package is for kernels < 2.1.70. This package _replaces_ package ksmbfs which should be removed from Hamm (I already filed a bug against ftp.debian.org about this). Status: current and maintained. Package smbfsx: smbmount and smbumount userland utilities that allow you to mount a smbfs file system. This package is for kernels > 2.1.70. The sources for this package are the same as for the Samba package (smbfs utilities were merged with Samba 1.9.18). Status: current and maintained. Package ksmbfs: is obsolete, is obsolete and must be removed from Debian 2.0 and above. It is not even libc6 compliant. Don't use it, use package smbfs instead. Status: obsolete. Please note that I have been asked to merge packages smbfs and smbfsx in just one package and provide stub scripts to call the right binary depending on the kernel version. I don't like this idea and I don't think I'll have the time to think about it before Debian 2.0. Regards, E.- (maintainer of smbfs, smbfsx and samba) -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .