Re: [PATCH] doc: clarify that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf
Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Jeff Layton wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:09:12 +0530 > Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Steve, Jeff, >> >> If the following mount.cifs doc patch makes sense, can this be >> considered for merging? I have seen atleast a couple of bug reports that >> reports that cifs is not honoring configuration setting in smb.conf. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Suresh Jayaraman wrote: >>> It seems that for some users that are used to smbclient, it is not clear >>> that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf for configuring client specific >>> parameters. So, let's add this information to mount.cifs man page. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]> >>> --- >>> >>> docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml | 6 ++++++ >>> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml >>> index d0affea..32b2970 100644 >>> --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml >>> +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml >>> @@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ kernel log. >>> the mounted resource is unmounted (usually via the umount utility). >>> </para> >>> >>> + <para> >>> + Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honours client-side > ^^^^^^^ > Should be "honour" Ok >>> + configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those client tools, >>> + <emphasis>mount.cifs</emphasis> ignores smb.conf completely. >>> + </para> >>> + >>> </refsect1> >>> >>> <refsect1> > > Maybe this should go in the NOTES section? It seems more appropriate to add in the NOTES section. Here's the updated patch. docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml index d0affea..c5b516b 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml @@ -544,6 +544,13 @@ read and used as the password. <title>NOTES</title> <para>This command may be used only by root, unless installed setuid, in which case the noeexec and nosuid mount flags are enabled.</para> + + <para> + Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honour client-side + configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those client tools, + <emphasis>mount.cifs</emphasis> ignores smb.conf completely. + </para> + </refsect1> <refsect1>