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cifs-utils missing #7

Open neg3ntropy opened 4 years ago

neg3ntropy commented 4 years ago

I could not mount a SMB share and noticed that mount.cifs was missing.

I cross compiled cifs-utils, uploaded it to a running MiSTer and cifs_mount.sh now works.

I am just starting with this project and was interested in making a PR maybe, but I could not find a source repository for the linux distro hosted here in binary archives.

sorgelig commented 4 years ago

I remember there is repository for CIFS utilities. I don't want to encourage the users to use network storage as it's very unstable and may bring a lot of bugs unrelated to MiSTer itself. So it's up to advanced users knowing what they are doing.

neg3ntropy commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/CIFS_MiSTer seems to be gone. The part of the script that was using it is commented out. Probably there was no need for that repo at some point, but now there is again. I you care to recreate it I can do 2 PR, one for the binary and another for downloading from the script.

sorgelig commented 4 years ago

oh, i remember CIFS pack originally included kernel drivers. Later i've compiled the drivers into kernel and then only scripts was needed for CIFS. I never used it myself, so can't be sure, but i remember scripts was the only thing you needed for cifs. Linux usually has several ways to deal with one thing, so probably mount.cifs can be avoided.

neg3ntropy commented 4 years ago

mmm, I looked but I could not find any info supporting that. Is was assuming that cifs-utils was included in the past and removed along the way.