On Jan 31 2008 12:33, David Newall wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Jan 30 2008 12:53, Steve French wrote: >> >>> I have mounted to Windows98 a few months ago with no problems (other >>> than a few restrictions like you can't set the file times via utimes). >>> For mounts to Windows98 note that you have to specify the server >>> netbios name on the mount (since it is not the same as the DNS name). >>> In your example your would need to specify "servernetbiosname=WIN98" >>> in the mount options (until mount.cifs autoretries with >>> servernetbiosname assumed to be the beginning of the UNC name - note >>> that later servers have a dummy netbios name that is used so this >>> mount option is only needed for OS/2 and Win9x). >> >> Ok that works. I had tried "netbiosname" but not "servernetbiosname" >> (only fuzzy memories from the last win98 encounter and the suggestion >> to use netbiossomething). > >Apparently CIFS lacks an adequate man page (otherwise Jan would have >discovered servernetbiosname for himself.) That's sufficient reason to >keep smbfs, and just to be radical, why not remove cifs until it's >properly documented? Man pages are essential.
smbfs does not seem to do NT/XP mounts, so that's kinda problematic too, as fun as it sounds :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
