Bug 146504 - smbfs mounting fails
Summary: smbfs mounting fails
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: x86 Linux
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Mads Martin Joergensen
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Reported: 2006-01-29 09:32 UTC by Jan Engelhardt
Modified: 2007-10-28 09:45 UTC (History)
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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.