Re: smbfs: questions and issues

["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>]

On Thu, 5 May 2016, wwp wrote:

> I've added a smbfs link to my hotlist, and now I see a bunch of
> questions/issues:
Currently, mc's smbfs is currently outdated, insecure and badly broken. At 
some point, Slava undertook a rewrite, but it was never finished, and 
apparently nobody is really interested, so whether it will ever happen is 
an open question, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I would much rather recommend you setting up SMBNetFS, which will resolve 
all the problems you're mentioning, I believe:
    http://askubuntu.com/a/653913

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev