Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 May 2006 12:24:40 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree |
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On Fri, 12 May 2006, John Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006 17:03:56 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt > <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > > >> > smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer. Change it to shout at the user on > >> > the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS. > > >> > Come November we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens. > > >Sorry for falling in late but we can't do that. > >Win 98 (95 too?) shared can not be mounted with CIFS, it requires SMBFS. > > W98? He's dead, Jim. >
huh, my wife has a laptop that she still uses that has w98 on it. And I do use smbfs to sometimes communicate with it. Why upgrade when you don't have to?
-- Steve
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