Bug 179451 - smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
Summary: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-31 15:22 UTC by David Bradford
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-02-01 06:34:57 UTC
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Description David Bradford 2006-01-31 15:22:43 UTC
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Description of problem:
mounting a remote samba share produces this result 
"ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
smbmnt failed: 255"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.mount -t smbfs -o'username=SOMENAME' //SOMEIPADDRESS/homes /mnt
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel
Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page
smbmnt failed: 255


Expected Results:  should have had amount on the remote server

Additional info:

kernel version 2.6.15-1.1884_FC5
"""smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel"""

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2006-02-01 06:34:57 UTC
Use cifs instead.  smbfs is unmaintained upstream, and has a number of problems
which have gone unfixed for a long time. CIFS on the other hand has an active
maintainer.



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