Re: tlug: Re: samba?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 mike.fabian@example.com wrote:

> Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com> wrote:
> >   Is smbclient included in the 'samba' package on both RH & TL?  I
> >   seem to remember smbclient & samba being packaged seperately somewhere.
> 
> Yes, its included on both systems. "smbfs" is packaged seperately
> though.

Additionally, smbfs support must be compiled into the kernel or as a
kernel module (smbfs.o).  Under RH/TL, smbfs.o is part of the standard
kernel package... the 'smbfs' package just provides the user-space tools
like 'smbmount' and 'smbumount'.

The samba guys say that 'smbsh' makes all this obsolete, but I think that
the ability to definitively mount a share/unmount a share is still
desirable.  Esp. since you can smbmount over a WAN, where smbsh will only
let you browse the LAN (unless there's some funky parameters to it that I
haven't found yet) -- just like Windows itself.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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