On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:47 PM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-10-22, Andreas Thulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > After some googling, I couldn't find answers to my questions so I turn to > > this list. Please forgive me if this is a worn-out topic etc. > > > > > > - Is there a specific reason there's no "mount -t smbfs" or similar > > option in OpenBSD that let's me mount an smb filesystem easily, and > on boot > > time (which fails using sharity-light)? > > Nobody's sent a diff with a suitable implementation. > > Haha, yes that's indeed a specific reason. What I meant was "is there anything related to the focus areas of OpenBSD, such as security and stability, that argues for not having included a 'mount_smbfs' thingy?". But you're absulutely right. :-) > > - Do I have other options but sharity-light to mount an smb filesystem > > automatically on boot? > > - How is all this related to fuse and do you have any pointers to > things > > I can read in order to understand the topic better? I'm not a > developer > > unfortunately. > > FUSE is an interface for writing a filesystem in userland code rather > than the kernel. There are various ports providing programs doing this > for various things (ntfs, sshfs etc), you might like to look at usmb. > It's not perfect but may work better than sharity-light. > > All right, thanks for the tip! I'll look into that. Cheers, Andreas
