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 > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > >
