Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: autofs/smbfs - delayed mounting? | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 21:23:33 -0800 (PST) |
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> > HOWEVER! Automount calls smbmount with the parameters and syntax > appropriate for the smbmount from the smbfs package. That smbmount program > no longer works with the smbfs in the 2.1.x kernels (x > 70). The smbmount > program from the samba package uses a different syntax. The story and > reason for that is long and Volker and I may put it together into an FAQ > one day. I hope to get a compatibility mode into the Samba smbmount > eventually that will work with autofs. Until that time arrives, I have > a shell script which replaces smbmount and calls either smbmount.smbfs or > smbmount.samba, depending on the booted Linux version, with appropriate > parameter translations. That script can be had off of my web server at > <http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/smbmount.html> >
Can someone please let me know (a) what the differences are, (b) how I tell which smbmount I have, and (c) who I can get rustled up to get a real /sbin/mount.smbfs into the Samba package so I won't need these kluges anymore?
-hpa
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