smbfs not in the FC5 kernel?

[Karel Zak]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 02:23:58PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 25.03.2006, 18:24 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:44 +0100, Jörn Rink wrote:
> > > my old method to mount a smbfs filesystem does not work, further
> > > investigation shows, that the smbfs kernel module does not exist in the
> > > actual FC5 kernel.
> > > 
> > > Has the method changed? In fedora core 3 there was such a kernel module.
> > smbfs has been deprecated by CIFS. Try using that. 
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> <criticism mode> But why the heck are the Core developers simply closing
> #179451, #185363 and #186427 instead of reassigning the bug to
> util-linux? I suppose the maintainers of mount should be able to patch
> it somehow so it uses cifs automatically instead of the old smbmnt
> (which will fail due to missing smbfs support in the kernel). That would
> avoid a lot of confusion.</criticism mode>

 I know about this problem. The heuristic which map //server to 'cifs' (there
 is 'smbfs' now) will be available in the next util-linux update.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>