[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#463378: smbfs: Cannot tonnect to Win98 host

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:01:58PM +0100, Elmar Haneke wrote:

>> Please use the "servernetbiosname" option when connecting to Win98 servers.
>> This is currently being discussed upstream; I agree that it's a bug which
>> should be fixed, though I'm not sure if/when this will happen.

> This does not help on my machine, I have to run an 2.6.14 Kernel.

Well, that kernel is older than the one shipped in etch and far older than
the one that will ship with lenny.  For something as closely tied to the
kernel as filesystem drivers, I don't think this is a configuration that we
can support anyway.

> Is there really no way to use smbfs filesystem anymore?

You can rebuild the samba sources from upstream to use the smbfs driver.  I
don't know how much longer smbfs userspace will be available in samba
upstream either, though; Debian is not the first vendor to disable it, and
there are active discussions of deprecating it in the upstream kernel.  The
smbfs driver is definitely a dead end.

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