Manpage for smbmount doesn't actually say anything about smbfs being unmaintained, and doesn't redirect people to use mount.cifs as ticket 1920 says. This leads to a huge amount of time wasted trying to find the fixes to problems that will never be fixed.
Created attachment 2678 [details] proposed patch
Thanks for your feedback! Marking bug as fixed (r1106). Please reopen if you are not satisfied with the patch.