Re: Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

[Martin Drab]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:25, tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >On 03/08/2005 17:03:04 linux-kernel-owner wrote:
> >>Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem in the Linux kernel?
> >
> >It probably won't help you much, but I had the same problem few
> > months ago. There was a bug in smbfs which I tried to discuss with
> > someone, and after failing to contact the maintainer, I sent the
> > fix to Linus. I don't think even he managed to get a response from
> > Urban or someone else. The fix went in so I stopped chasing it.
> >
> >So it looks like smbfs is not maintained.
> 
> I thought that originally was Andrew Tridgels output?
> 
> I'm having problems with it too, but only on a deb3.1 system.  I 
> looked in Borders yesterday, but couldn't find a 'samba for dummies' 
> or similar publication.
> 
> The question then is: Where might there be a decent publication 
> describing samba and how to make it work?  Dead tree, pdf equally 
> welcome here.

Have you tried <http://www.samba.org> ?

Martin
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