Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:56:39 -0800 | From | Robey Pointer <> | Subject | Re: smb: more than broken? |
| |
Just to clarify because some people misunderstood my original post: * smbclient is part of samba * smbmount is a Linux-specific tool (completely different source for 2.0 and 2.1)
In 2.1 (currently) both are required for mounting smb. In fact 'smbclient' must be patched and then modified by hand. In 2.0 only the (old) smbmount is required.
Philip Blundell wrote: > > >* Roll 'smbmount' into 'mount'. If 'smbclient' is really necessary, let > >'mount' start it up. > > I agree. Also, `smbmount' needs to massage sharenames so that they're in a > legal format for mtab; at the moment I run in to trouble with programs like > `df' because one of my SMB mounts has a space in the middle.
In 2.1 currently, 'df' does not even show the mount point of an smb mount. :)
> >should be fixed at the source (samba) or rolled into the existing > >'mount' command (NFS uses 'mount', why can't we?). > > I doubt it's deliberate to keep them separate, it just tends to happen that > way at first. If you want to do the work to merge them and make them > glibc-safe then I daresay many people would be grateful.
I've since come to the belief that we should keep a separate 'smbmount' -- in fact, it would be nice if NFS did the same ('nfsmount'?), and then let 'mount' do the native filesystems manually, while running the external utilities for add-on filesystems. That way, adding things like coda or smb will change only a few lines in 'mount'.
**********
It looks like nobody is currently maintaining the user-level SMB mounting tools (which explains why they're in the shape they are). After vacation, I'll try to hack them into a useful shape and post them on a web site. Time willing, I'll then start the gruesome job of mushing them back into one single mount utility.
samba has made it clear that they will not support Linux's required patches to 'smbclient' so we need to pull out what we need and stick it back into 'smbmount'.
Robey -- Robey Pointer | "If animals aren't for eating, why are robey@netscape.com | they made of meat?"
| |