Bug 332693

Summary:	samba: provide fake samba packages
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	macias - <bluedzins>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	The 'Opening Windows to a Wider World' guys <samba-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Other
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Description macias - 2007-10-10 17:04:14 UTC

OK, I already read about removal of samba packages, incorporating cifs (that does not work) -- I don't agree with this decision, but I so many tried to convince you to include it, and they failed so I stop here.

However, crippling the system is one thing, and hidding this is another story. So please provide fake samba packages. I mean I should be able to execute for example:
smbmount ....
and get:
We are sorry, smbfs is not supported in opensuse. For further details please visit.... (*)


I hope it is 100% understandable -- struggling with cifs took my 2 weeks to finally get the conclusion that it does not work and it will not work, after that I installed smbfs and kernel from alternate repo, and the rest took me 10 seconds maybe. So it would be at least a nice gesture to all opensuse user who use samba.

(*) of course this page should inform how to use UNSUPPORTED smbfs, and not to encourage to use cifs

Comment 1 Andreas Schneider 2007-10-17 12:18:13 UTC

smbfs is deprecated/gone since SUSE Linux 10.1 and smbfs was always marked as UNSUPPORTED in the kernel. 

If you find bugs you should report them and switch back to the unsupported/deprecated smbfs module.

man mount.cifs provides all needed informations about mounting CIFS shares.