On 04/03/2015 at 16:44, Éric Deschamps wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There are 3 commands we can use to mount SMB/CIFS shares :
> - mount.smbfs
> - mount.cifs
> - smbmount

  As I do not have Samba installed in my machine I cannot check if this
is true on Debian/Ubuntu, however I remember that one of mount.smbfs and
mount.cifs is a symlink to the other, or maybe they are both a symlink
to a third executable file.

> Does an attendee need to know these 3 commands? In this case, would you
> mind if we add them explicitly on the list of utilities?

  Well, most (all?) mount -t * commands are handled by a wrapper that
causes a specific, different command to be run.  I think that we should
not privilege just one or a few of the filesystem-specific mount
commands, and that we should expect a candidate to be aware of the
mount.$FILESYSTEM commands that take care of the gory filesystem
details.  In Samba's specific case, I would just mention the mount -t
cifs or mount.cifs command.

  Besides, I can read the following in http://linux.die.net/man/8/smbmount:

WARNING: smbmount is deprecated and not maintained any longer.
mount.cifs (mount -t cifs) should be used instead of smbmount.



  Regards,


-- 
Alessandro Selli http://alessandro.route-add.net
VOIP SIP: [email protected]
Chiavi PGP/GPG keys: B7FD89FD, 4A904FD9

_______________________________________________
lpi-examdev mailing list
[email protected]
http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev

Reply via email to