smbfs not in the kernel

[John Pearson]

On Monday 13 February 2006 8:24 am, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> >>I believe smbfs has been dropped in favour of cifs, since smbfs is not
> >>maintained anymore.
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Roy-Magne Mo <rmo at sunnmore.net>
> >
> >Huh?  See:
> >
> >http://us4.samba.org/samba/news/#3.0.21b
> >
> > # yum info samba
> >Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> >Setting up repositories
> >Reading repository metadata in from local files
> >Available Packages
> >Name   : samba
> >Arch   : i386
> >Version: 3.0.20b
> >Release: 2.1
> >Size   : 15 M
> >Repo   : development
> >Summary: The Samba SMB server.
> >Description:
> >
> >...
>
> Smbfs is the in-kernel implementation and has been replaced with CIFS.
> Samba is user space. Not the same thing.
>
>
> --
> Rahul
>
> Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers


Thank you for the clarification.

-jp