Hi Istvan, I don't know whether your system will need a new kernel and know nothing of patching and make-ing one. My SLES8 kernel is 2.4.21-251. And I don't know the implications of not having fs/cifs in the source. I do see now on my system lsmod doesn't list cifs until after I do a mount.cifs.
To use mount.cifs I didn't have to change anything on the winxp servers, I didn't have to change my linux kernel, I downloaded the mount.cifs.c, did make mount.cifs, read the mount.cifs man page for the parameters syntax and it worked first time I tried. Good luck -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Istvan Nemeth Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: smbmount question My original :( suse kernel doesn't supports cifs..and now I see the kernel source (2.4.19) doesn't have fs/cifs. May I patch it with "Latest 2.4 Release (gz containing cifs vfs source files and patch for kernel makefile and configure)" from the url http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html, or is it a better idea to compile a new 2.4.21 kernel? Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta 2004.12.08 14:36:19 időpontban: > I had a problem with smbmount of Win shares that had more than 400-500 > files: ls and mc listed only the first 400-500 file names as if the > others didn't exist. My IBM Suse SLES8 support said its due to a known > bug in SMB on the Win-side, not a Linux bug. Suggested I use cifs > (common internet file system) which is replacing smb. Cifs is already > built into winxp and uses same ports as smb. Cifs solved my problem, > might solve yours. > > Instead of smbmount's I do mount.cifs > > mount.cifs command is the samba mount utility for the cifs filesystem, > the replacement for smbfs. SLES8 kernel supports cifs but doesn't have > the mount.cifs command yet. You don't need to run samba to use > mount.cifs. > On my SLES8, doing lsmod listed cifs as a loaded kernel module. > > If you're interested in trying it: > Download the c source program file, mount.cifs.c, from > url http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html the link called: > "Source for cifs mount utility on sambaweb" > > Download the man page file, mount.cifs.8, from same url, the link > called: > "man page for mount utility" > Compile the c program with command: make mount.cifs > creating executable binary: mount.cifs > > Copy executable mount.cifs to /usr/local/sbin/ > And copy man page to /usr/local/man/man8/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
