Mounting cifs shares using Samba 4?

Chris Jones christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch
Wed Jul 22 18:29:12 UTC 2009


>>>
>>> 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.

I have mount.cifs on my ubuntu 9.04 machine, and mount samba shares  
just fine, so it is there somewhere. I think the package you need is  
smbfs, maybe smbclient.

cheers Chris




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