Bug 5947 - mount.cifs should not require to specify netbiosname when mounting Win9x shares
Summary: mount.cifs should not require to specify netbiosname when mounting Win9x shares
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CifsVFS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kernel fs (show other bugs)
Version: 2.6
Hardware: Other Linux
: P3 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steve French
QA Contact: cifs QA contact
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/463378
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Reported: 2008-12-07 05:13 UTC by Debian samba package maintainers (PUBLIC MAILING LIST)
Modified: 2020-07-16 00:12 UTC (History)
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Description Debian samba package maintainers (PUBLIC MAILING LIST) 2008-12-07 05:13:21 UTC 
See the original Debian bug report. Though the issue initially reported by our user is not directly related to this bug's title, it finally turned out that there is a demand for not being forced to specify the netbios name with "servern" when mounting Win9x shares.

Steve (French) mentioned this as possible in http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2008-January/057747.html

I did not find any bug report about this and I wanted to link our Debian bug to something upstream: hence this bug report

Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>, for Debian samba package maintainers
Comment 1 Jeff Layton 2012-05-19 12:41:56 UTC 
Moving to kernel since this would need to be fixed there.