On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 19:44 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote: > simo wrote: > > > There is no interdependency at all, when compiling samba you can choose > > to build either or both helpers, it is a packaging choice. Most > > distributions are slowly killing smbfs and stopping building the > > smbmount helper in the samba packages. > > I unmounted all cifs connections, then I purged the smbfs package off of my > Ubuntu 7.04 desktop. > > I tried mounting connections: > > /bin/mount -t cifs -o > credentials=/home/mdlueck/.smbcredentials,uid=mdlueck,gid=mdlueck > //ldslnx01/data /mnt/ldslnx01/data/ > > And received this type of error: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //ldslnx01/data, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > Thus, the dependency I was referring to. I do not like to be one to argue. > (shrug)
Ask Ubuntu maintainers, they decided to package both helpers in the same packet, so if you remove one, you remove the other too. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
