Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762468AbYAaCX4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:23:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754984AbYAaCX3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:23:29 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:54044 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754403AbYAaCX1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:23:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:23:25 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: David Newall cc: Steve French , Adrian Bunk , sfrench@samba.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove smbfs In-Reply-To: <47A12C71.4050609@davidnewall.com> Message-ID: References: <20080128220835.GF8767@does.not.exist> <524f69650801301053s370c9a2fpd03bf31616e37d9c@mail.gmail.com> <47A12C71.4050609@davidnewall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1517 Lines: 31 On Jan 31 2008 12:33, David Newall wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jan 30 2008 12:53, Steve French wrote: >> >>> I have mounted to Windows98 a few months ago with no problems (other >>> than a few restrictions like you can't set the file times via utimes). >>> For mounts to Windows98 note that you have to specify the server >>> netbios name on the mount (since it is not the same as the DNS name). >>> In your example your would need to specify "servernetbiosname=WIN98" >>> in the mount options (until mount.cifs autoretries with >>> servernetbiosname assumed to be the beginning of the UNC name - note >>> that later servers have a dummy netbios name that is used so this >>> mount option is only needed for OS/2 and Win9x). >> >> Ok that works. I had tried "netbiosname" but not "servernetbiosname" >> (only fuzzy memories from the last win98 encounter and the suggestion >> to use netbiossomething). > >Apparently CIFS lacks an adequate man page (otherwise Jan would have >discovered servernetbiosname for himself.) That's sufficient reason to >keep smbfs, and just to be radical, why not remove cifs until it's >properly documented? Man pages are essential. smbfs does not seem to do NT/XP mounts, so that's kinda problematic too, as fun as it sounds :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/