Re: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel

On Mar 30, 10:55 am, Chris Cox <notc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
cifs is the only supported soln AFAIK moving forward.
Use cifs instead of smbfs.

What is cifs? Will it mount Windows shares?

I tried cifs instead of smbfs, but got the message "mount error: cifs
filesystem not supported by the system". Do I have to install it? How?

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