cifs mount not working after 9.10 upgrade

[Joep L. Blom]

Tom H wrote:
> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> 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 ...
> 
>> 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.
> 
> smbfs has /sbin/mount.cifs, /sbin/mount.smbfs, /usr/bin/smbmount (the
> latter is a symlink to the second)
> 
Yes! Chris & Tom.
I've got it.
Why they made it a separate package is unclear to me.
I have to leave now will be back later.
Joep