From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 16:52:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62A137B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA07331; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:42:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Chris Wasser" , Subject: RE: smbfs > Sharity-Light > * Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:50:41 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20001024114955.A7647@area51.v-wave.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok, count me in as one of the sharity-light users. it works well for me here. i was just told that when using smbfs, it's been found on another machine here that when the remote share is made unavailable (remote windows machine rebooted... imagine that), then smbfs barfs and won't reconnect to the share. since i have no experience with smbfs, i can't form an opinion about smbfs. i can say that sharity-light works well for me! have any of you seen this reconnect problem with smbfs? -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Wasser }Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:50 PM }To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: Re: smbfs > Sharity-Light > * } } }On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:07:15AM -0600, Jamie Hermans wrote: }> > Werner Gillmer wrote: }> > > }> > > What is the BSD-equivilent for the Linux smbmount? }> > }> > sharity-light. But for my pity it couldn't mount in }script, when I start }> > it by hands - all OK. Why? } }You could also try smbfs by Boris Popov , I've }been playing }with it here and it works pretty damn well (haven't tried }printers yet mind }you) and it works pretty much like the Linux smbmount, best }of all, it's }free: } }mount_smbfs -I 1.2.3.4 //user@machineid/share /mnt } }With plenty of options for automation. Loads as a kernel module, }df reports: } }Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail }Capacity Mounted on }//FLATLINE@DEEPTHOUGHT/PUBLIC 28414464 20298240 8116224 }71% /cmdmicro/public }//FLATLINE@DEEPTHOUGHT/BAK 28414464 20298240 8116224 }71% /cmdmicro/bak } }(in the above case, both shares exist on the same physical }partition, which is }why they both show the same amount of used/free space) } }Pretty slick huh? If you wanna play with it (author says }it's beta, looks pretty }stable to me so far, but your mileage may vary) get it from: } }ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/smbfs/smbfs.tar.gz } }Make sure you read the docs ofcourse :) Enjoy. } }(PS: yes, I did jump on this from someone elses post }yesterday, but it seems so }much nicer then Sharity-Light I figured I'd jump on the }bandwagon, keep it up }Boris!) } }This would be a great addition to the BSD source tree :) We }already got nullfs, }msdosfs, etc, why not smbfs? :) } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message