smbmount

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 9/23/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >On 9/23/07, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> >> >On RHEL4, smbmount belongs in the package samba-client. I just installed
> >> >RHEL5 and could not find it there.
> >> >
> >> >Does anybody know which package on RHEL5 that has smbmount ?
> >>
> >> Probably samba-client or perhaps samba.
> >
> >I think smbmount has been deprecated for quite some time.  You should
> >be using "'mount -t cifs $BLAH" or "mount -t smb $BLAH".
>
> There have been some issues with kernel bugs related to cifs cited on the
> CentOS mailing list.

Can you be more specific, seeing as how Centos is an umbrella for 3
different products, across multiple kernel versions?

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