Re: Old post: Writing to SMB share fails from some applications
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:30:13 +0000, Clive Menzies
<clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> On (02/02/05 11:40), Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> > Hi Clive,
> >
> >
> > I've found your post on the debian list, but I found no follow up to
> > it. I would like to know if you have more info about the problem. It
> > seems that we've ran in the same problem here with Ubuntu (a
> > Debian-based distro) & Open Office. Any information is valuable.
> >
> > I found your original message at this location:
> > http://groups.google.com.br/groups?selm=3arlv-4Sm-13%40gated-at.bofh.it&output=gplain
> Hi Carlos
>
> Ah! That was a while ago and I gave up, reverting to nfs. Then about 3
> weeks ago I took delivery of a new laptop and thought I'd try again.
>
> Following spotting something about smbfs being deprecated in favour of
> cifs, I installed the cifs kernel module (using modconf in debian) and mounted
> the shares as cifs instead of smbfs. I did this last week and it's been
> working fine since then.
Hi, I found some references about CIFS also later (after I sent that
message to you). I found the lack of documentation on CIFS absolutely
confusing. Almost all existing references talk about CIFS, the
"Microsoft Standard", and a few precious talk about moubt.cifs, the
Linux CIFS client. I still would greatly appreciate if you could send
to me more info, or pointers about it.
I also found intriguing another thing: with so many documents about
Samba as a server for a Windows environment, there's little literature
on the use of a Linux workstation with Samba. That would be
understandable if NFS were a little bit better, but considering how
bad and outdated NFS is... I thought more people would have tried a
client CIFS/SMB for Linux.
An example: please check your 'man mount', and see if cifs is
mentioned at all. I found that mount.cifs is included in my setup
(Ubuntu hoary, a debian based distro), but 'man mount' doesnt list it.
It also seem to be a little short on arguments, which is equally
weird. There's also little literature on the use of the mapping issues
in this scenario. I wish to solve it, but it`s being much harder than
I antecipated.
--
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
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