Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 18:04:22
Message-Id: 20100505180839.15addb99@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] samba vs. cifs by KH
1 On Wed, 05 May 2010 18:42:09 +0200, KH wrote:
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3 > net-fs/mount-cifs ("net-fs/mount-cifs" is blocking net-fs/samba-3.4.6)
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5 mount.cifs is now provided by Samba.
6
7 > Somba is pulled in by the samba use-flag. The PC only is "client" to a
8 > server running samba. Do I need samba for this anymore? More specific
9 > (don't want to hear "moo"): Will I be able to mount a samba partition
10 > without setting the samba use flag and after unmerging samba?
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12 Samba is the server. The client tools used to be a separate package but
13 it now looks like you should emerge samba with USE="-server smbclient".
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 Home is where you hang your @.

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