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authorSuresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>2009-07-06 06:31:30 -0400
committerJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2009-07-06 06:31:30 -0400
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doc: clarify that mount.cifs never uses smb.conf
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 <sjayaraman@suse.de>
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diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml
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@@ -589,6 +589,14 @@ 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. When installed as a setuid program, the program follows the conventions set forth by the mount program for user mounts.</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>
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