Bug 146504

Summary:	smbfs mounting fails
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description Jan Engelhardt 2006-01-29 09:32:46 UTC

The default install does not install samba-client, therefore, cifs and smbfs mounts (`mount -t smbfs ...`) fail with a hardly-understandable message in syslog:

klogd: smbfs: mount_data version <some random number> is not supported

I think another printk in the kernel should be added to notify the user "Have you installed xyz...".

Comment 1 Mads Martin Joergensen 2006-01-30 11:35:51 UTC

well, this would mean that every fs that is dependent on a package, we would
have to alter the error messages and carry a patch for this.

If YaST is used for this, YaST will make sure that samba-client is installed, so
I don't want to spend the time now and in the future for supporting this.

Comment 2 Jan Engelhardt 2006-01-30 11:44:18 UTC

Yast used for what? I installed from scratch, therefore yast has been used in all its glory.