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- Date: October 15, 1999
- Contributor: Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se>
-
- Subject: smbmount usage and mount.smb
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-
- Words
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-
- smbfs - A filesystem that gives you access to a SMB share as a filesystem.
- This is done as a normal kernel filesystem. Currently this is for
- Linux only.
- smbmount - The program that does the initial SMB setup with the server.
- mount.smb - A link to smbmount that is created (always in /sbin) when you
- install samba.
-
-
- What's going on?
- ----------------
-
- The syntax for mounting SMB shares has been changed so that shares can
- be mounted with the normal mount command. When giving a -t smbfs flag to
- mount it knows to call an external mount program, mount.smb. With the
- new syntax, smbmount can be that mount.smb (through a symlink).
-
- This requires a recent enough version of the mount program for Linux,
- you almost certainly have this (exact util-linux version anyone?).
-
- With the new format you should not have to call smbmount/mount.smb
- directly. Instead you do something like this:
-
- mount -t smbfs -o user=tridge,passwd=foobar //fjall/test /data/test
-
- The current list of options are:
- username=<arg> SMB username
- password=<arg> SMB password
- netbiosname=<arg> source NetBIOS name
- uid=<arg> mount uid or username
- gid=<arg> mount gid or groupname
- port=<arg> remote SMB port number
- fmask=<arg> file umask
- dmask=<arg> directory umask
- debug=<arg> debug level
- ip=<arg> destination host or IP address
- workgroup=<arg> workgroup on destination
- sockopt=<arg> TCP socket options
- scope=<arg> NetBIOS scope
- guest don't prompt for a password
- ro mount read-only
- rw mount read-write
-
- If you already have a mount.smb script you probably do not need it
- anymore.
-
-
- /etc/fstab
- ----------
-
- One of the advantages with this setup is that you can put entries for
- smbfs in your fstab.
-
-
- autofs
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-
- mount.smb makes autofs integration much easier, since it is now
- "yet-another-filesystem".
-
- Before, autofs had to parse the given options and then send them to
- smbmount in the right format. This "right format" changed between
- 1.9.x and 2.0.x (and even between 2.0 versions). That is a pain when
- multiple packages are involved, this new setup should be a cleaner
- interface.
-
- The only thing that now changes if smbclient changes options are what
- you have to put in your autofs maps.
-
- Example /etc/autofs.data:
- test -fstype=smb,username=tridge,password=foobar,uid=123 ://fjall/test
-
-
- Strange dates
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-
- This really has nothing to do with smbclient, but if you are using
- smbfs you're likely to read this file when you run into problems so I
- put ithere anyway ... :)
-
- In older versions of Linux (before 2.2.10) smbfs did not automatically
- recognise some buggy win95 servers. Instead there was an option for a
- workaround that could be set at compile time. The problem with setting
- that option was that it would give funny dates when looking at shares
- from a NT box.
-
- Upgrade to the latest 2.2 version (2.2.12 is fine) if you are having
- this problem. RedHat 6.0 comes with a kernel that is compiled with
- this option set.
-