[K12OSN] Re: Mounting SAMBA shares on a Linux workstation (Petre Scheie)

[Petre Scheie]

mrgoblin wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
>> For newer windows file servers (maybe 2000 and later?)
>> you need to specify "-t cifs" instead of "-t smbfs". 
>> Cifs is Microsoft's new filesharing specification.  
>>
>> Another peculiarity of the Cifs system is that you
>> need to provide credentials in order to see the list
>> of available file shares.  The older system let you
>> see the list w/o providing credentials, and only
>> required the credentials if you actually wanted to
>> mount one of those shares.
> 
> Isn't the server a SAMBA server ?
> Paint me yellow and call me a banana but where did windows servers get
> mentioned?
> 
> John
> 
I, too, assumed it was a samba server, not a Windows box, which is why I suggested using 
sshfs instead; it's much easier, uses (more familiar to me) ssh syntax, works on thin 
clients, don't have to be root to use it, etc.

Petre