[K12OSN] Re: Mounting SAMBA shares on a Linux workstation (Petre Scheie)

[mrgoblin]

Rob Owens wrote:
> For newer windows file servers (maybe 2000 and later?)
> you need to specify "-t cifs" instead of "-t smbfs". 
> Cifs is Microsoft's new filesharing specification.  
> 
> Another peculiarity of the Cifs system is that you
> need to provide credentials in order to see the list
> of available file shares.  The older system let you
> see the list w/o providing credentials, and only
> required the credentials if you actually wanted to
> mount one of those shares.

Isn't the server a SAMBA server ?
Paint me yellow and call me a banana but where did windows servers get
mentioned?

John