FC2-Test 1 and smbfs

James Drabb JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com
Sat Feb 14 21:27:39 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 15:43, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 14.02.2004 schrieb James Drabb um 20:46:
> > Did FC2-Test 1 drop support for smbfs?  When I try to mount an smb share
> > with smbmount I get an error that the kernel does not support smbfs.  I
> > did a clean install of FC2-test 1 from CD.
> > 
> > Jim Drabb
> 
> >From changelog of the kernel development for Fedora:
> 
> - Update to 2.6.1-bk5
> - Move broken vmlinux symlink to debuginfo package. (#111879)
> - Fix PCMCIA & -mregparm3
> - Disable SMBFS (CIFS is preferred).
> 
> So CIFS exchanges SMBFS.
> 
> Alexander

Thanks for the tip.  Does that mean smbmount no longer works?  Under FC1
I am able to make smbmount and smbumount suid root so a normal user can
mount smb shares.  Do I need to just use plain ole mount now?

Jim Drabb
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