Confused over CIFS
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 12 21:09:23 UTC 2009
On 01/12/2009 01:00 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>
>> On 01/12/2009 12:53 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>>> You said: "The mount.smbfs in Ubuntu is just a wrapper over mount.cifs."
>>>
>>> I, therefore, feel free to point out that smbfs and cifs are different
>>> modules and different implementations in previous kernels which I point
>>> out in the second paragraph in the quotation above because that would
>>> the case in versions of Ubuntu before Hardy.
>>
>> Ummm... not sure who's right or wrong in all of this, but for what it's
>> worth here's what I've dug up:
>
> Me neither, but it seems to me "just a wrapper" and "different
> implementations" are not necessarily completely incompatible.
>
> In Ubuntu 8.10, I guarantee "mount.smbfs" is, indeed, just a wrapper around
> "mount.cifs". The last line of the _script_ mount.smbfs is:
>
>> exec /sbin/mount.cifs "${args[@]}"
>
> Which doesn't mean that "smbfs" is not a completely or largely different
> implementation - it just means the actual implementation of smbfs has been
> removed from Ubuntu.
It's the same in Hardy:
$ cat /sbin/mount.smbfs
.
.
.
exec /sbin/mount.cifs "${args[@]}"
>
>
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