Re: samba: mounting as cifs not working (works in Windows though)
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:37:26 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> On 29/07/10 11:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> Does accessing via nautilus/konqueror ("smb://192.168.0.8/share/")
>> work?
>>
>>
> Ha! Yes, it works with dolphin file browser (I am using KDE). I can
> browse the network, then browse samba shares and then when I click on
> the samba server, I can click on the shares, I am then prompted for a
> username and password, which are given and then I can browse the shared
> folders. This all works.
Good. KDE/GNOE use their own samba client framework to handle samba
shares, different than "mount -t cifs" does.
> Perhaps I should just ditch mounting the share using cifs. :-?
No, mounting a samba share "must" work, but is a bit picky :-).
I do not use it at all, but a mounted samba share offers more
possibilities than just accessing the resource using "smb://" protocol.
(I.e., some programs cannot open/save documents from/to a shared resource
using "smb://", they need a "local" path to work -meaning "/mnt" and
such).
> I am not much familiar with samba clients. So I have this question in my
> mind now, what is the status of cifs at this time in Linux? Is it a
> popular option? I used to use smbmount in the past, but I gather that it
> is provided by smbfs and is deprecated or to be replaced by cifs?
It's a very popular option... but people using two linux boxes tend to
prefer using "sftp://"; (or "fish://" in KDE) for document sharing/
browsing instead samba (it's lighther, safer and easier) :-)
Anyway, "mount -t cifs" has to work, there must be something we are
missing here...
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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