Most of my use is actually with smbclient, but I realize that smbclient uses much of the code from smbfs, which makes the errors I see of some concern to me. I use smbclient for performing amanda backups. If I can't trust smbclient, then I can't trust the backups.
Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:03 -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote: >> When I mount samba partitions using smbmount on a Linux box > > I strongly suggest moving to the CIFS VFS for talking to Samba CIFS > servers, as the unix extensions are correctly handled for maximum > transparency. It is also a far better implementation. > >> How does smbclient handle the type of errors which produce these >> results? > > It has a different CIFS client implementation entirely, so has different > properties. > >> I have seen a few explanations, but I can't find a really good >> answer. Perhaps a timeout on the Windows side. > > Oh, you mean a windows sever... I still suggest the CIFS VFS. > > Andrew Bartlett > > -- > Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ > Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de > Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org > Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
