Re: So what is ksmbfs pkg for?
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
: So what is the ksmbfs pkg for anyway?
:
: I think that the ksmbfs stuff got merged in samba a few versions
: back. Perhaps the ksmbfs package will disappear eventually.
To summarize:
Package samba: it allows to convert your Linux box in a SMB server,
just like Windows 95 and NT computers (NT Domain support is not there
yet although the Samba team are working on ti - this will allow you to
get rid of Windows NT boxes that are PDC and BDC for domains). The
smbclient program is part of the Samba package. Status: current and
maintained.
Package smbfs: smbmount and smbumount userland utilities that allow you
to mount a smbfs file system. This package is for kernels < 2.1.70.
This package _replaces_ package ksmbfs which should be removed from
Hamm (I already filed a bug against ftp.debian.org about this).
Status: current and maintained.
Package smbfsx: smbmount and smbumount userland utilities that allow you
to mount a smbfs file system. This package is for kernels > 2.1.70.
The sources for this package are the same as for the Samba package
(smbfs utilities were merged with Samba 1.9.18). Status: current and
maintained.
Package ksmbfs: is obsolete, is obsolete and must be removed from
Debian 2.0 and above. It is not even libc6 compliant. Don't use it,
use package smbfs instead. Status: obsolete.
Please note that I have been asked to merge packages smbfs and smbfsx
in just one package and provide stub scripts to call the right binary
depending on the kernel version. I don't like this idea and I don't
think I'll have the time to think about it before Debian 2.0.
Regards,
E.-
(maintainer of smbfs, smbfsx and samba)
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