Re: [Hampshire] smbfs

john lewis wrote:
> 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 can confirm that up-to-date Etch no longer has working smbfs. More
worryingly using smbfs causes smbd to segfault! My only problem was
that smb4k (samba share browser for KDE) defaults to smbfs. I just had
to find the option in the GUI to change that to cifs.

Simon