Re: smbfs: questions and issues

[Toby]

> I re-discover smbfs after few years, I see it's still as slow and 
> itchy as it was

Yes, the performance and bugginess of Samba / smbfs have not been improving at 
all. Which is probably not the developers' fault, but a poorly designed 
protocol. 

If your setup allows it, you might want to try sshfs. Coming from smbfs, I've 
found it to be ridiculously fast and reliable.

There is also mc's internal #sh support:

cd #sh:user@server:/path

You might want to try both (FUSE sshfs and mc #sh) and see which one works best 
for you. I tend to use sshfs for local resources, as a replacement for smbfs or 
nfs, and #sh for remote resources.

Toby
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Re: smbfs: questions and issues

[wwp]

Hello Yury,


On Thu, 5 May 2016 10:35:41 +0200 (CEST) "Yury V. Zaytsev"  
wrote:

> On Thu, 5 May 2016, wwp wrote:
> 
> > I've added a smbfs link to my hotlist, and now I see a bunch of
> > questions/issues:  
> 
> Currently, mc's smbfs is currently outdated, insecure and badly broken. At 
> some point, Slava undertook a rewrite, but it was never finished, and 
> apparently nobody is really interested, so whether it will ever happen is an 
> open question, but I wouldn't bet on it.
> 
> I would much rather recommend you setting up SMBNetFS, which will resolve all 
> the problems you're mentioning, I believe:
> 
>  http://askubuntu.com/a/653913

Hah! If I knew it was outdated.. I've set up smbfs mounts through fstab
and autofs for my user so it's not a problem. I liked the idea to have
it from mc itself, like it does for FTP, and I was tempted by it mostly
in order to avoid cifs mount resistance to hibernation and other hang
outs (I re-discover smbfs after few years, I see it's still as slow and
itchy as it was), but it's not critical at all. I'll have a look at
smbnetfs as well, thanks for the tip!


Regards,

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Re: smbfs: questions and issues

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Thu, 5 May 2016, wwp wrote:


I've added a smbfs link to my hotlist, and now I see a bunch of
questions/issues:


Currently, mc's smbfs is currently outdated, insecure and badly broken. At 
some point, Slava undertook a rewrite, but it was never finished, and 
apparently nobody is really interested, so whether it will ever happen is 
an open question, but I wouldn't bet on it.


I would much rather recommend you setting up SMBNetFS, which will resolve 
all the problems you're mentioning, I believe:


http://askubuntu.com/a/653913

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Yury V. Zaytsev
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