smbfs not in the kernel

[John Pearson]

On Monday 13 February 2006 8:47 am, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> On 13.02.2006 14:20, John Pearson wrote:
> >>I believe smbfs has been dropped in favour of cifs, since smbfs is not
> >>maintained anymore.
> >
> >Huh?  See:
> >
> >http://us4.samba.org/samba/news/#3.0.21b
>
> http://us4.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.21b.html
>
> (search for cifs,  a lot of hits, eg.)
>
> Release Notes for Samba 3.0.21    Dec 20, 2005
>
> [...]
> o Complete NTLMv2 support by consolidating authentication mechanism used
> at the CIFS and RPC layers.
>
> (search for smbfs, 1 hit)
>
> Release Notes for Samba 3.0.3    April 29, 2004
> [...]
>
> * Fix smbfs problem with Tree Disconnect issued before smbfs starts its
> work.
>
> --
> shrek-m

Thank you, reading now.

-jp