How to directly access files on windows network

[Derek Broughton]

Michael R. Head wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 10:39 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Exactly.  You can mount samba shares in /etc/fstab, ...
>> > 
>> > type=cifs is better in most cases. You can use 'sudo mount.cifs ...'
>> > instead of 'sudo smbmount ...' to do it at the command line.
>> 
>> OK - I'm happy to be corrected!  I didn't know about cifs - and it isn't
>> documented in man mount.  Is it completely SMB compatible?
> 
> I only just found out about it last week myself! I was having some
> terrible trouble using smb to create huge (4G) files on a windows
> server. During my search for answers, I found out that smbfs is
> effectively dead and cifs is the new hotness. Better performance, better
> support for unix permissions, and better compatibility with new windows
> stuff.
> 
> It turns out that CIFS does not work if you have an old OS/2 file
> server, so it is slightly incompatible.

yeah, looks like it probably wouldn't work in a Win98 workgroup, either.  As
long as it's XP compatible, it's going to do the job for most people.
Thanks for the tip.
-- 
derek