Mounting cifs shares using Samba 4?

Bill Marcum marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 22 14:37:20 UTC 2009


On 2009-07-22, R. A. Bilonick <rab at consolidated.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 09:31 +0300, Shahar Dag wrote:
>> try mount -t cifs
>
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>
> Actually, I misspoke, I am using "mount -t cifs" and not "mount.cifs".
> It appears that there is no smbfs installed or installable when Samba4
> is installed. Essentially, there is no cifs so it cannot mount a Windows
> share. This seems a bit weird to me. In Fedora, you can have samba and
> samba4 both installed at the same time. In Ubuntu 9.04, synaptic/apt-get
> won't let both be installed.
>
> Rick B.
>
You might need to install samba4-clients.






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