> Hi, > I am deploying samba for an embedded system. The requirement > is that the > system should be able to mount windows share points. I > believe "smbmount, > smbumount and smbmnt" components are needed to do the same. I > am not very > clear about smbmnt though! > I find that smbmount, smbumount and smbmnt are all quite > huge. Around 300 > to 400Kb each. > I understand that Samba is capable of doing complex things. > However if all > i need is the ability to mount and unmount share points do i > need this big a > smbmount, smbumount and smbmnt? > Also whenever i choose SMB_FS support in the Kernel > configuration, i am > forced to choose the NLS. Do i really need it? How can i do > without it? Also > the smbmount demands codepage.850, codepage-def.850, unicode_map.850, > unicode_map.ISO8859-1 files. I have not provided the same in > my embedded > development environment. Funnily, although it complains that > the above files > were not found, it works fine! What does this mean? What are its > implications? Can i do without these too? > > My target is MIPS running on Linux. I could not compile > Samba for MIPS > directly. However after some jugglery i changed my Makefile > and it compiled > me smbmount, smbumount and smbmnt. Now smb works on my target > system too. > However the file size is huge [801, 815 and 797 Kb]. How can > i reduce this? > > Any help regarding the same would he great. > > Thanks a lot in advance.
I belive the Amiga version is under 100kb exe. It also have wrapper to take care of POSIX calls. Could be useful ? -- Ulf