cifs mount not working after 9.10 upgrade

[Joep L. Blom]

Chris Jones wrote:
>> As you guessed, I use it under X and the directories are mounted using
>> the standard tools from samba which are now incorporated in a.o.  
>> nautilus.
>> But just out of interest I tried to mount from the commandline and  
>> found
>> that mount.cifs has disappeared. I assume the developers in their
>> infallible wisdom developed some other script (or changed the name)  
>> but
>> forgot to mention it. It would be nice if somewhere a notice had
>> appeared that mount.cifs was depreciated just as the good old  
>> mount.smb
>> has been depreciated and replaced by mount.cifs (and also  
>> mount.smbfs).
>> I have a running Hardy and there mount.cifs and mount.smbfs are still
>> available. What happened with it in Karmic I don't know. I have the
>> impression that canonical is more and more trying to hide the real
>> processes from the user and urges him to use the graphical layer only.
>> It makes it more equal to commercial OSes like M$ OS and Apple  
>> (which is
>>  Unix based on I think BSD hidden under the apple look) but it makes
>> life for normal(?) (more technical) users harder.
>> Just my 0.02 €.
> 
> mount.cifs is still there in karmic. You just don't have it  
> installed....
> 
>   > sudo apt-get install smbclient
> 
> I think ...
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
No, not in my Karmic. Do you have upgraded to the offical version, 
released last Saturday?
My smbclient installs:
../findsmb;../smbclient;../smbget;../smbtar:../smbspool;../smbtree;../smbcalcs;../smbcquotas;../rpcclient;
(..=/usr/bin/) but no cif or smbfs.
If I go to synaptic and search for mount.cifs I only get libpammount 
which does something for automatically mounting and unmounting on 
file-servers related to the security of the connection..
I am curious what has happened as in the graphical environment mounting 
of e.g. windows-shares gives no problem.
Joep