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Re: Did the syntax for a samba /etc/fstab entry change?



On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Tom Epperly <tepperly@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:
>
>  //windmach/My\040Pictures /mnt/PictureArchive smbfs
>  noauto,user,username=Userone,rw,uid=uone,gid=uone 0 3
...
>  I run Debian unstable. I've checked the man pages and README files in
>  /usr/share/doc/samba-docs, and I can't find any indication that the
>  syntax has changed.  Does anyone have any suggestions? Please Cc me on
>  replies.

smbfs has been deprecated in favor of cifs.  Depending on your
provider, you may be able to replace "smbfs" with "cifs" and have
everything work.  If, like me, you have a "helpful" ISP that treats
unresolvable domains as searches, you'll never hit the local wins
lookup for your SMB server.  What worked for me in this case is to
have a line like the following in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

hosts:          files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

Note that this means all hostname resolution will check for wins
entries before dns.  Doing the equivalent in the samba configs doesn't
currently work for cifs.

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