> If it makes you feel any better, I have experienced the same problem. It
> will also trip you up if you have a large number of files to transfer
> between machines. Basically, you will lose files randomly, which can be
Yes, this all sounds familiar (although I can't remember the details).
> pretty tough to track down. I didn't have time to check it out, so we
> installed Hummingbird NFS (yuk) on the NT box and used good old nfs mount
> as a work around.
>
> This is a pretty serious problem, as you say, and I found it hard to
> believe that no one has fixed it. Part of the issue might be the official
> Samba team refuses to support smbmount. This is a real shame, as it could
> be a big advantage for Samba if it worked reliably.
They don't refuse to maintain it ...
--- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:50:05 +1000 From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba@samba.org> Subject: Re: newbie: where and how to use smbmount with 2.04b ?> Somewhere in the documentation (don't remember exactly where) it > states that smbmount is not really supported by the samba team so it's > not enabled by default;
It hasn't been supported by the Samba Team recently as no one on the team uses it. The fact that it is Linux specific also doesn't help.
I have, however, just voluntered to start maintaining smbfs (and thus smbmount) so you can now consider it supported again. I've done quite [snip]
See? He is also listed in MAINTAINERS.
I guess he is a busy man, and I'm sure he'd appreciate all of our help solving this and other smbmount/smbfs problems. Yes, I know, time ...
/Urban
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