Where are smbmounts mounted?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 16 21:52:13 UTC 2006


From: "James Wilkinson" <fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk>

> 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 It's been replaced by mount.cifs -- CIFS is Microsoft's *second* attempt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).

Just use mount and be done with it. Otherwise you lose some of the
basic mount options.

{^_^}




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