WOW, look at all the responses!

So, I run win 7 Pro.  This "cifs" thing looks like the way to go. But 
I'm a bit cloudy.
Is CIFS being used as a transport mechanism to and from the network even 
though i'm "mounting" it?

and NFS would NOT be usable in this case... right?


What I need is some directories on each machine to be visible to every 
other machine, _*and*_ one directory in ALL machines visible to ONE.


on 10/18/2012 07:57 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Kevin Fries
>> But on the Linux machines, make sure smbfs is installed.  This will
>> allow the Linux boxes to simply mount the samba share the same way
>> it mounts NFS.
> smbfs is deprecated and should not be used.  Its replacement is cifs.  Like
> so:
>
> mount -t cifs //BORG/SHARE /mnt/borg -o domain=WORKGROUP,user=JOEBOB
>
> ...will find the share SHARE on the machine BORG and attempt to mount it on
> mountpoint /mnt/borg using the user JOEBOB from domain WORKGROUP.  It'll ask
> you for a password if one's required.  You may be able to leave the domain=
> off if your 'Doze network doesn't use domains.
>
> IME, NFS is faster than Samba, which may be something to think about.
>