[Hampshire] smbfs

I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone on this list but I
think someone mentioned problems with an upgrade to samba a few
days back

Christian Perrier blogged:

> Thou Shalt Not Use Smbfs
> A one may see with the regression recently introduced by the
> lastest security updates of the samba package, using smbfs is
> currently not possible with etch Samba servers if they're
> up-to-date.
>
> I'm afraid that people who experience this bug just deserve what
> they got. Smbfs is bloody deprecated for years in favor of the cifs
> filesystem (samba upstream QA work never includes checks for smbfs
> stuff). CIFS Userland utilities are provided in the smbfs Debian
> package so the switch is mostly a matter of a few minutes work and
> manpage reading (some options might differ).
>
> We should have told this earlier, probably, sorry for this. But it
> is now time to say it and even shoult it: if you're using smbfs,
> you're shooting in your own foot.
>
> So, check you machines and if you use "smbmount", consider
> switching (sams for positive output of "grep smbfs /etc/fstab"):
> it's quite likely that it is removed in next versions of samba as
> Steve Langasek, myself and other samba package maintainers are
> really fed up with bugs related to that obsolete thing.


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John Lewis
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