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

[Petre Scheie]

Petre Scheie wrote:
> 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.
> 
I forgot to mention another advantage of sshfs: you can use it across the internet since 
it's over a secure channel.  I find it ironic that CIFS stands for Common _Internet_ 
File Service since no one in his right mind uses CIFS/SMB across the internet.

Petre