smbfs not in the kernel

[John Pearson]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 5:22 pm, Roy-Magne Mo wrote:
> su den 12.02.2006 klokka 17:19 (-0500) skreiv Partha Bagchi:
> > I tried to mount a windows share and I got the following error:
> >
> > ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
> > Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
> > smbmnt failed: 255
>
> I believe smbfs has been dropped in favour of cifs, since smbfs is not
> maintained anymore.
>
>
> --
> Roy-Magne Mo <rmo at sunnmore.net>

Huh?  See:

http://us4.samba.org/samba/news/#3.0.21b

 # yum info samba
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Available Packages
Name   : samba
Arch   : i386
Version: 3.0.20b
Release: 2.1
Size   : 15 M
Repo   : development
Summary: The Samba SMB server.
Description:

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