Where are smbmounts mounted?

James Wilkinson fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Sat Sep 16 13:40:16 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> But that leaves a mystery. The man page of mount indicates the existence
> of a mount.smbfs (which does not seem to exist). Then there is smbmount
> which I thought used to exist but I can't find it in the distribution.
> The implication is that you can mount a file share. Can you? And if you
> can , how do you do it?

It's been replaced by mount.cifs -- CIFS is Microsoft's *second* attempt
at a filesharing protocol (unless I missed a pre-SMB one).

James.

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