smbmount vs. gnome-vfs

Posted by Holger Schauer in Linux
Tuesday, April 4. 2006

For the first time in twelve years of Linux experience, I encountered a problem with a command line solution that doesn't show up with a GUIzed version of the same procedure. I tried mounting a samba share from on of our file-servers via smbmount, which works flawlessly with my old Debian Woody install. Using the exact same settings on Ubuntu mounts the share, however I can't look into it at all. I.e., I can't even call stat on the mount.

Using Nautilus/Gnome, however, I can succesfully connect to the server and even open a file browser on it. However, how gnome-vfs, which obviously handles the mount, does it's magic is beyond me. I can't even see a mount of the share via /proc/mounts or with lsof. Seems like gnome-vfs uses a socket connection directly, perhaps thereby not running into the problem I have with smbmount?

Update: cifs instead of smbfs was the reason.

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