smbfs not in the kernel

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Feb 13 13:24:59 UTC 2006


Hi

>>I believe smbfs has been dropped in favour of cifs, since smbfs is not
>>maintained anymore.
>>
>>
>>--
>>Roy-Magne Mo <rmo at sunnmore.net>
>>    
>>
>
>Huh?  See:
>
>http://us4.samba.org/samba/news/#3.0.21b
>
> # yum info samba
>Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>Setting up repositories
>Reading repository metadata in from local files
>Available Packages
>Name   : samba
>Arch   : i386
>Version: 3.0.20b
>Release: 2.1
>Size   : 15 M
>Repo   : development
>Summary: The Samba SMB server.
>Description:
>
>...
>
>  
>
Smbfs is the in-kernel implementation and has been replaced with CIFS. 
Samba is user space. Not the same thing.


-- 
Rahul 

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