From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 17:27:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C3B1576A for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA76278; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:57:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:57:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: samba Message-ID: <19990927095727.V46202@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990926135459.A432@rknebel.uplink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990926135459.A432@rknebel.uplink.net>; from Rick Knebel on Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:54:59PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 26 September 1999 at 13:54:59 -0400, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I have samba running nicely under linux but it seems everything is in a > different place under freebsd. > Where is smbmount? In Linux. To quote /usr/local/share/doc/samba/textdocs/README.smbmount: Date: February 26, 1999 Subject: smbmount / smbmnt / smbumount ============================================================================= The Samba-Team wishes to make known that the above programs are a part of the SMBFS software package for the Linux operating system. They are very definitely NOT part of Samba and are in general NOT supported by the Samba-Team. In repsonse to flames to comp.protocols.smb and to feedback to samba-bugs@samba.org we wish to place on record that the reason for which these programs have not received the attention that some folks expect from the Samba-Team is as stated above, they are NOT part of samba. Out of empathy for the Samba user base we have taken the liberty of including patched source code for the above "SMBFS package" utilities in the Samba tarball. Mike Warfield is temporary caretaker of SMBFS and may be contacted at mike@samba.org. In deference to the fact that these programs are NOT part of Samba the default binary packaging facilities included in the samba tarball do NOT automatically create the updates needed for the Linux 2.2.x kernel. If you require the updated smbmount / smbmnt / smbumount tools then it will be necessary to modify the samba2.spec file to include the --with-smbmount option to the samba "configure" script _AND_ you will need to add these files to the appropriate locations in the "install" and "files" sections also. The platform specific RPM SPEC files that you will need to modify may be found under ~samba/packaging/"platform". The Samba-Team has considered the alternatives. These are: 1) Include all SMBFS code with Samba: - rejected because we do not have the resources to support it. - SMBFS is specific and limited to Linux 2) Just build the smbmount / smbmnt / smbumount binaries: - doing this will break RPM dependencies for the SMBFS package - this is not a good option either 3) Encourage people to use the "smbsh" utility that is part of samba and is being developed to replace the need for "SMBFS" - this is portable to platforms other than Linux - it allows each user to authenticate as themselves instead of allowing all users to use an SMB session that is authenticated as just one user. We have chosen the later and hope that our users will understand and support the decision that has been made. For and on behalf of the Samba-Team John H Terpstra You, too, could have found this the way I did, with 'locate smbmount'. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message