where are the smb shares mounted?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Rashkae wrote:
> Anthony M Simonelli wrote:
>> You'll have to actually mount them to be able to access them from the
>> command line or to use anything other than Gnome to access those files
>> because if you notice, the address for the shares from Network Servers,
>> it starts with smb:// meaning your actually not browsing a "mounted"
>> filesystem.  Think of it as just browsing the SMB network as you would a
>> web site instead of http://.  To actually mount an SMB share, you can
>> use the smbmount command if you have smbfs package installed.
> 
> Or better yet, use cifs
> 
> sudo mount -t cifs //hostname/sharename -o \ 
> username=remoteuseranme,user=localUsername
> 
> smbfs is depricated and should be allowed to die.

People keep saying this.  What exactly is wrong with smbfs (have been
using cifs for a while...)?

Matt Flaschen