if you ask me its about time they ported samba to win32

On Mon, 25 Aug
2003 18:48:30+1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > 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
> 
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