Originally Posted By: Shonky
"smbfs" is no longer called that. It's now called cifs. I'm not sure where Ubuntu is in that but if it says smbfs is unknown use cifs. Fedora 8 is like this for example.

Also you don't need samba as mentioned to connect to shares. You probably do need "samba-client" though.


The machine I have to hand is running Dapper on a 2.6.15 kernel and smbfs is accepted without any quibbles.

EDIT: It appears that 8.04 JEOS on 2.6.22 accepts that as well.
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