Recently I inquired about the reason for the kernel option to support SMB, at a euglug meeting. (smb is the protocol windows computers use to browse, share, etc). I had asked if it was needed, since the smbclient tool could talk with smb shares. Well, I found a package called smbfs. This package allows one to mount an smb share directly to one's file system. Kernel SMB support is required. This is a step above and beyond the smbclient program. If you've used it, you know what I mean. smbclient is sort of like an ftp client. It certainly is NOT bash. For instance, you can't do normal unix commands through it: find, grep, less, zless, etc... However, if you mount it to your filesystem, then it works just like mounting your dos file system. smbfs is also supposed to plug right in to the mount program. It takes a little configuring, making an /etc/mount.smb file with the config. However, the package comes with an easy to use smbmount / smbumount program. Cory
