Subj : Samba + kernel question
To : Dumas Walker
From : Bencollver
Date : Tue Oct 08 2019 11:27 am
Re: Samba + kernel question
By: Dumas Walker to BENCOLLVER on Mon Oct 07 2019 16:44:00
> Thanks. I did some reading also but was not sure what the difference
> between the using the samba client and using the CIFS client are. I will
> have to play around with it some and see what happens.
The samba client is in the userland. You either use it at the
command-line, or you can use a graphical file manager that has
built-in client code. It's comparable to FTP.
The CIFS client is in the kernel. You mount it like you do NFS.
The filesystem is available to all applications just like NFS.
