If I recall correctly, CIFS is the newer protocol to SMB so over time, specifying "cifs" instead of "smbfs" in the Linux would have been phased in as distro kernels were upgraded.
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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
From: "Adam Zion" <azion1995@gmail.com>
To: "PLUG" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 3:28:39 PM
Subject: [PLUG] Why were smbmount + smbfs deprecated?
Pardon me if this has been discussed previously- although a search through the archives didn't show it. But, why were the command smbmount and the smbfs filetype (for use in the mount command) deprecated in favour of the cifs-mount command and the cifs filetype? The replacement seem to be rather less intuitive than the former.
Thanks,
-Z
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