From patchwork Tue Apr 14 10:44:38 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Suresh Jayaraman X-Patchwork-Id: 18092 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 n3EAjWkt019038 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:45:32 GMT Received: from dp.samba.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD143163C41 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:45:11 +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=-2.5 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 victor.provo.novell.com (victor.provo.novell.com [137.65.250.26]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F316D163BA2 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:44:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.2.100] (prv-ext-foundry1.gns.novell.com [137.65.251.240]) by victor.provo.novell.com with ESMTP (TLS encrypted); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:44:51 -0600 Message-ID: <49E46916.2040103@suse.de> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:14:38 +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" Subject: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] 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 It seems that for some users that 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 | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml index d0affea..32b2970 100644 --- a/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml +++ b/docs-xml/manpages-3/mount.cifs.8.xml @@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ kernel log. the mounted resource is unmounted (usually via the umount utility). + + Some samba client tools like smbclient(8) honours client-side + configuration parameters present in smb.conf. Unlike those client tools, + mount.cifs ignores smb.conf completely. + +