SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

[O. Sinclair]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> David McGlone said the following at 12/03/2007 05:23 PM :
> 
>> Stew is right, smbfs doesn't work anymore and you need to use cifs.
>>
>> But your problem is probably because you need to add hpxp as an alias to 
>> 92.168.0.244 in /etc/hosts. Here's an example of my /etc/hosts file on my 
>> desktop. "buddy" is my desktop and server, and "lappy" is my laptop.
>>
> 
> Nope. As I mentioned earlier, ping works, so hpxp is indeed in my hosts
> file correctly.
> 
> So is it simply that in gutsy smbfs doesn't (as you say) work?
> 
> One wonders (loudly) why they included it in that case.
> 
> I guess I'll try later today to get cifs working, and just give up on smbfs.
> 
>   Doc
> 
Just to confuse a bit more: smb4K (found in repos) now uses cifs and 
seem to work very well in Gutsy. You can have it to "automount" on 
startup though that seems to make shutdown take very long.

Sinclair