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Friday Jun 03, 2005

Samba smbmount/smbfs

Speaking of Samba, one thing we don't have for Solaris is Samba client support via 'smbfs'. We're looking into that.

If you have input on this, including user scenarios to help us understand the customer needs and priority of this work, please post a comment. I'd love to hear from you.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbmount.8.html

Posted at 11:28AM Jun 03, 2005 by Don Traub in General  |  Comments[4]

Comments:

mount -t smbfs would be useful for allowing people to access corporate windows file shares.. what would be even more helpful is if there was some user mapping functionality as part of the mount process, similar to netapp's usermap.cfg..

Posted by Mike Adams on June 09, 2005 at 04:07 PM MDT #

smbfs is a must for helping sell Solaris as an OS that integrates well in mixed Windows/*nix environments; nothing more painless than adding an SMBFS mount line to fstab to mount corporate SMB-based shares :).

Posted by Perldork on August 15, 2005 at 05:57 PM MDT #

Great idea. I just don't want to start a Samba server only to access a windows share as client which is the only real solution today. Something as simple as Linux mount extended command would be appreciated.

Posted by Joël Martin-Gallausiaux on September 15, 2005 at 09:23 AM MDT #

Hi,

Yep, the ability to mount SMB filesystems on Solaris boxes would be great, eg to:

a) Help overcome Windoze general lack of automount-style on-the-fly mounts in large development environments.

b) Today's task: dumping some valuable data onto a cheap CIFS-based NAS box for safe-keeping off-site. I'm having to use smbclient which is so 90s!

Rgds

Damon

Posted by Damon Hart-Davis on September 08, 2006 at 09:50 AM MDT #

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