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Old 09-03-2009, 05:18 PM   #1
jmpetre
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fstab smbfs mount is really mounting as cifs??


I have this line in my /etc/fstab file:
Code:
//192.168.249.1/Primary /mnt/server smbfs username=***,password=*** 0 0
It mounts the system fine with the proper credentials. But when I check /etc/mtab, I see this:
Code:
//192.168.249.1/Primary /mnt/server cifs rw,mand 0 0
Why is it mounting as cifs, and how do I stop it? Cifs is giving me a very annoying error when I try to shut down, apparently it has something to do with stopping the network services before unmounting all shares, and CIFS hangs while it tried to unmount the share. So I want to just use samba.

Any ideas?
 
Old 09-03-2009, 05:26 PM   #2
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cifs is used by samba for connecting to windows share using samba I believe it also is newer than smbfs. Here is a good read on cifs.

Last edited by jstephens84; 09-03-2009 at 05:29 PM.
 
  


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