From 91e020fca1b1428d994e742e97c5c73d4bf88458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suresh Jayaraman Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:31:30 -0400 Subject: 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 --- docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs-xml/manpages-3') diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml index a748b90adb..6461d82aef 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. + + -- cgit