From patchwork Mon Jul 6 05:35:49 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Suresh Jayaraman X-Patchwork-Id: 34184 Received: from lists.samba.org (mail.samba.org [66.70.73.150]) by demeter.kernel.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n665aCTt004244 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:36:12 GMT Received: from dp.samba.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0227163C23 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:35:34 +0000 (GMT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on dp.samba.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.8 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 X-Original-To: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Delivered-To: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Received: from mx1.suse.de (cantor.suse.de [195.135.220.2]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E366E163BDC for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:35:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350388E8CC; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:35:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A518D35.8050406@suse.de> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:05:49 +0530 From: Suresh Jayaraman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve French , Jeff Layton X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Cc: "linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org" , samba-technical@samba.org Subject: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] [RESEND] doc: clarify that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf X-BeenThere: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: The Linux CIFS VFS client List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-cifs-client-bounces+patchwork-cifs-client=patchwork.kernel.org@lists.samba.org Errors-To: linux-cifs-client-bounces+patchwork-cifs-client=patchwork.kernel.org@lists.samba.org For some users who 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 --- docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml index a748b90..6461d82 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml @@ -589,6 +589,14 @@ read and used as the password. NOTES This command may be used only by root, unless installed setuid, in which case the noeexec and nosuid mount flags are enabled. When installed as a setuid program, the program follows the conventions set forth by the mount program for user mounts. + + + Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honour client-side + configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those + client tools, mount.cifs ignores smb.conf + completely. + +