Re: [gentoo-user] samba mount on fstab

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

thanks for the explanation. And what about samba project ? it doesn´t use SMB ?


On 5/23/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@×××××.com> wrote:
> > nice, the bar thing solved the problem with samba, I had never used
> > cifs, is it better ? in what things it is better then smbfs ?
>
> Among other things, it supports files >2G (or is it 4G?).
>
> From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt:
>
>   This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System
>   (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block
>   (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
>   PC operating systems.  CIFS is fully supported by current network
>   file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including
>   Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
>   server support for Linux and many other operating systems)
>   <snip>
>   The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network
>   file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better
>   POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high
>   performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet
>   signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization
>   improvements.
>
> In fact I read on lwn.net that smbfs may be officially deprecated
> soon...possibly in 2.6.18.
>
> -Richard
>
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