NCP and SMB Filesystems in Fedora Core 6

Reinhard Brandstaedter Reinhard.Brandstaedter at jku.at
Mon Nov 13 13:50:57 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 09:32 -0800, A Yagi wrote:
> Reinhard Brandstaedter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just realized that both network filesystems ncpfs and smbfs are
not
> > included in the default kernel configuration of FC6.
> > NCPFS is not used that often anymore but SMBFS?
> > 
> > Was this done on purpose or by mistake?
> > 
> > Reinhard
> 
> I believe smbfs has been depreciated in favor of cifs.

And ncpfs? there is no replacement for that, and I'd still need it.
I had to compile a custom kernel to enable ncpfs again. But the ncpfs
tools are still in the official fedora repository but are worthless
without the ncpfs kernel support...

Reinhard




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