[PlanetCCRMA] FC 5 drops smb support

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 10:07 -0400, polly wrote:
> Hello,
>    This is not CCRMA specific but may help in your decision to upgrade to  
> Fedora core 5;
>  from what I can tell the developers dropped support for the 'Win 98' smb  
> format, meaning you
> can no longer transfer files to windows 98, ME vintage systems. I've kept  
> one machine on my
> local network at FC-4, rsync files to that machine and thence onward to  
> users' Win 98 machines
> but the irony of being forced, by an Open Source decision, to ditch  
> perfectly good systems and
> having to purchase XP licences, is delicious.  Cheers !

No need for that (yet? :-)
There was a thread about this a while back, see below.
-- Fernando


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: BJaY <BJaY at safe-mail.net>
To: Yann <ya_ at gmx.net>, nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Subject: RE: [PlanetCCRMA] smbsupport
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 09:10:57 +0100

>hi !
>i installed the new 2.6.16-rrt kernel but in somehow there is no
smbsupport.
>in some moments i still need to go back to windows to get some files
>quickly transfered
>is there a way to get this to work?
>yann

Somthing like file://OtherComputer/C$ enetered in konqueror worked for me.
It uses CIFS which apparently replaced (is a superset of) smb. This sould
allow you to transfer files and there may be a way to mount a volume as
well, but I haven't looked into it.

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From: Hitmuri <hitmuri at no-log.org>
Cc: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] smbsupport
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 10:50:14 +0200

Yann a écrit :
> hi !
> i installed the new 2.6.16-rrt kernel but in somehow there is no 
> smbsupport.
> in some moments i still need to go back to windows to get some files 
> quickly transfered
> is there a way to get this to work?
> yann

Yes, if you want to mount shared directories you can use 
/sbin/mount.cifs and /sbin/umount.cifs the same way you would use 
smbmount and smbumount.

Flo