smbfs not in the kernel

[Jason Montleon]

There is an smbfs module and a cifs module in the kernel.  The smbfs module 
is deprecated; use cifs (i.e. 'mount -t cifs...')

Trying to use smbfs will yield the error message below; using cifs will get 
you where you want to go; I did the same thing, and had the same problem; my 
post, along with a similar response, is somewhere back in the mailing list 
archive.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Pearson" <jpearson42 at wowway.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: smbfs not in the kernel


> 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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