On Thu 29 Mar, Michael Brown wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Alan Davies wrote:
My understanding is that smbmount is not and will not be supported on current and future releases of LINUX. You have to do mount -t smbfs....
smbmount works here, on a "latest production release".
According to O'Reilly...'Using Samba'...page 36.....Smbmount....this feature wasn't being maintained at the time of writing (Jan 2000) so its left as an optional feature in the compile of the kernel (and I assume not in SUSE7.0) ....and provide smbwrapper instead - but it doesn't explain what that is.
There was something about suid - that I didn't understand.
There's a helper program called smbmnt that has to be installed suid-root.
What's a helper program? And what is installing 'suid-root'?
I am not ready to move home directory hosting to LINUX - for several reasons... NT server (PDC and BDC) have mirrored technology, software raid and gigabit fibre backbone connections....all of which I don't have on LINUX - and may not even be supported by LINUX....yet.
Software raid definitely is, gigabit ethernet almost certainly is, mirroring...what is being mirrored?
NT allows you to have two discs (or even servers) which 'mirror' the contents of the other. If one fails.....its OK.
-- Alan Davies Head of Computing Birkenhead School