samba - Nov 2003 - smbmount discontinued?

In a past thread I've notice that smbmount (and mount's suport for
it) will be discontinued and smbclient should be used insted.
 
    Sorry if the question is too lame but I use it in some of my systems
now and I think I'll have trouble porting then to smbclient.
 
    Is smbmount been removed because it relays on kernel smb support?
Samba will not need smb support in kernel in the future?
 
    Can anyone give me a brief ( or maybe a full explanation? :)) 
 
 
regards
thiago.

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 00:41, Thiago Lima wrote:
>      In a past thread I've notice that smbmount (and mount's suport
for
> it) will be discontinued and smbclient should be used insted.
No, this is incorrect.  

There are a few points that need to be made very clearly:

 - smbfs is old, and has known restrictions at the 2GB level.  There are
patches floating around to 'fix' this, but as the only restriction is in
the kernel, there is nothing the Samba Team can do about it.  (smbmount
already contains the client-side helper routines required to support
this).  The issues of file-size are just one of smbfs' problems.  

 - There is a new in-kernel filesystem called the 'Linux CIFS client' -
http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html

This filesystem has no 2GB or 4GB restrictions, operates using much
newer protocol revisions, and as such only talks to NT/Win2k/Samba
servers (no Win9X in particular).  

 - smbclient is the preferred tool for operations that do not need to
involve a real kernel filesystem.  If you are just shifting files for
backups, then you really do not need an in-kernel filesystem.

Andrew Bartlett

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On Wednesday 26 November 2003 08:41, Thiago Lima wrote:
>     In a past thread I've notice that smbmount (and mount's suport
for
What's quoted is all I see of your post for some strange reason (both in
kmail
and evolution). I see no body at all when using sylpheed. Very strange.
But that's not why I'm replying<g>.
I did post a comment to the effect of "smbmount is deprecated", but
that was
just my understanding from what happens in the distro I'm using; when I type
"smbmount" it suggests "mount -t smbfs" instead, so my
assumption was that
they were deprecating the use of "smbmount" with the replacement
syntax of
"mount -t smbfs". Apologies if I misled anyone.
-- 
Chris

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