Re: has anyone successfully accessed a windows share with samba > 3.0.2

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Alois Treindl wrote:

> Illi Cyrill wrote:
>
> > mount -t cifs //<windows share> <local mountpoint> -o
> > username=<user>,password=<pw>,uid=<uid>,gid=<gid>,file_mod=0750,dir_mod=
> > 0755
>
> I would expect a working samba release from Redhat, as it is a 
> supported feature of RHEL.
> I don't want to begin installing samba from other sources because 
> Redhat would not support it.

I may be mistaken, but I think you could try a cifs mount without 
installing a new version of samba.   The cifs filesystem type is 
supported by the standard kernel and doesn't involve samba at all, I 
believe.

jch