smbmount

[Bill Campbell]

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, 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?

There have been reports of problems with the cifs.ko kernel module
in CentOS 4.5 and 5.0 in the last week.  The Subject is CentOS
5.0 crash (cifs bug ?).  The first post had a couple of URLs:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/WindowsShare

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1776

There is apparently a patched cifs.ko in the bug tracker.

I noticed the thread, but didn't pay much attention as we have no
Windows machines on our networks, and only one of our customers
is running CentOS at this time.

Bill
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