[ale] ubuntu +windows shares

[Brian Pitts]

Joshua Chase wrote:
> sudo apt-get install smbfs
> 
> sudo mkdir /media/mountname
> 
> Then edit your /etc/fstab file (you need root privileges) to add this line:
> //servername/sharename /media/mountname cifs
> guest,uid=1000,iocharset=utf8,codepage=unicode,unicode 0 0

In the original message cifs, the replacement for smbfs, was used. Since
smbfs is being removed [0] from the kernel, it's probably a good idea to
diagnose and fix any problems with cifs.

[0] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg260960.html

-Brian