[Pkg-samba-maint] SMBFS Trouble with 3.0.27-1

[Peter Besenbruch]

On Sunday 18 November 2007 17:36:45 Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Thank you. Now I have to try to learn CIFS and see if I can make it work
> > with Windows 98. Will look for 3.0.27a.
>
> Er?  cifs is a replacement for smbfs, which is a Linux-specific kernel
> client.  That has nothing to do with Windows 98.

It's a long story involving Fedora 5, Debian, and Windows 98. Fedora 5 was the 
first distro that eliminated SMBFS, and it caused all kinds of trouble with 
the very simplified Debian Samba I had set up, and Windows 98 flat out 
refused to see the Fedora machine. The Fedora message boards were full of 
messages bemoaning the lack of smbmount, incompatibilities, and old Windows 
woes. The posters blamed CIFS.

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