Re: Teeny, tiny patch to 1.79, & smbfs question

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:38:25 -0500


John R. Corey wrote:

> Secondly, has there been any work done with smbfs? With the 2.0 line it
> worked fine, but 2.1.7x, it is very sporadic. Samba 1.9.18p1 now has a
> line in the makefile to build smbmount for the 2.1.7x kernels. I gave it
> a whirl and it mounts ok. Doing a df is about the only reliable
> operation I've found though :). Directory listings vary from showing all
> files, to only a few, and many times, no files at all.

Please file a more detailed report of your problem with smbfs. Most
importantly, which server are you using? Win NT, 95 and 3.1 all behave
rather differently.

Regards,
Bill