RFC: SMBMOUNT

July 23, 2008

Is the following line for mounting samba shares a good one?

smbmount //server/share /tmp/mountpoing -o lfs,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,username=xx,password=xx

Or has someone a better mount line? Like something with CIFS?

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6 Responses to “RFC: SMBMOUNT”

Matthijs said:

July 23rd, 2008 at 9:38 am

I’m mostly using:

mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,password=xxx,umask=0000 //server/share /mnt/mountpoint
Dennis said:

July 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 am

why CIFS ?
Matthijs said:

July 23rd, 2008 at 7:44 pm

Had some problems connecting to a W2003 server once, which where solved by using CIFS
Kees said:

July 28th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

smbmount uses smbfs, which is deprecated and misses features present in more recent versions of Samba (look at the ). Newer versions of Samba do not carry smbmount/smbumount anymore. CIFS is being developed further, and is the choice for new projects.
dennis said:

July 28th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

and what about the statement that kernel 2.4 does not support CIFS the fullest?
Kees said:

July 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Hi Dennis! I don’t know exactly to what statement you are pointing. I do know that the OpenWRT guys had a kmod-cifs for 2.4.30 that worked great for me on my WRT54G like a year and a half ago.

I don’t exactly what’s running of the CFULLHDMA, but there should be a way to get it going. Disclaimer: not an expert, just trying to help.

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