On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:27:15PM -0700, Thomas Garson wrote: > > 4) The new Linux samba client fails to recognize file system of the > shares as SMB, even though the shares can be mounted. But, if I mount > them as cifs instead of smbfs they are usable. > > Questions: > Has there been some kind of hidden parameter relatively recently added > to samba 3 that identifies shares as cifs or smbfs? Is the Linux client > programmed to react to this? Are these protocols becoming mutually > exclusive? If any of this is true, where is the documentation? Why me? > > This has given me a headache!
Sorry for the headache. You really shouldn't use smbfs anymore. It's essentially unsupported. You got bitten by Microsoft marketing, there's no difference between smb and cifs. Cifs is just a renaming (re-branding?) of smb. They're the same thing. Just always use cifsfs on linux. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
