On 5/23/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
nice, the bar thing solved the problem with samba, I had never used cifs, is it better ? in what things it is better then smbfs ?
Among other things, it supports files >2G (or is it 4G?).
From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/cifs.txt:
This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. CIFS is fully supported by current network file servers such as Windows 2000, Windows 2003 (including Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating systems) <snip> The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization improvements. In fact I read on lwn.net that smbfs may be officially deprecated soon...possibly in 2.6.18. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
