> this is weirder and weirder. on my rh 7.2 system with samba 2.2.7 I find > the following: > mount -t smbfs in fact calls /sbin/mount.smbfs (standard behaviour)
Don't worry. All the smb mount stuff under Linux changed 180 degrees several times. It didn't used to be that an smb fs could be mounted with mount, one had to use some obscure syntax of smbmount. Now it's orthogonal with the rest of the filesystems via mount, and that may partly have been achieved with wrapper scripts (who cares). I also remember reading comments that the samba team was very unhappy with the smb mount concept in general because it wasn't portable, but as far as I am concerned, the proposed portable way of accessing all files via some command with an ftp-like interface has an infinite suckfactor compared with just mounting and be done with it. Btw for Joe Bloggs to mount smb fs, smbmnt and smbumount must be SUID root (not smbmount). Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
