Re: smbfs in 2.6.8 SMP kernel

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 16:49:05 EST


On Llu, 2005-01-17 at 18:13, Brian Henning wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > If I remember correctly there was some smbfs breakage a few releases back
> > - 2.6.8 sounds about right. I'd suggest you try a newer kernel like 2.6.10
> > or 2.6.11-rc1 and see if that works better.
>
> No luck with smbfs in 2.6.10 with SMP either; however, I discovered the
> existence of CIFS (which I previously did not know about), and it
> appears to work smoothly in place of smbfs.

2.6.10-ac fixes several problems with the later smbfs code but cifs is
probably the better choice

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