smbutil and smbclient

[fluca1978]

Hi,

Seems to me that smbutil(1) does pretty much all the things that regular net/samba-smbclient does, but the former is FreeBSD specific. What are differences and aim of having smbutil?

 

[SirDice]

smbutil(1) is part of the base OS to complement mount_smbfs(8).

net/samba-smbclient is used by Gnome and a few others.

 

[fluca1978]

And this opens a new question: what is the reason to implement CIFS support in the base system instead of relying on smbmount and smbclient? Aren't these supposed to stay up-to-date with CIFS implementation? Just curious....

 

[SirDice]

And this opens a new question: what is the reason to implement CIFS support in the base system instead of relying on smbmount and smbclient?

They require a port to be installed.