Le 04/03/2015 18:04, Alessandro Selli a écrit :
> 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,
> 
> 

Hello Alessandro,

Many thanks for your answer!

Regards,

Éric
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