Smb: versus cifs: mounts?

Question

What are the differences when mounting remote shares using smb: versus cifs: protocols?

Answer 1

I had this problem, for those googlers here is the solution, post this into your /etc/rc.local.shutdown file:
echo "Unmounting samba-cifs filesystems..."
MOUNTED_CIFS_DIRS=`mount -t cifs| cut -d\ -f3`
MOUNTED_DIRS_ARRAY=($MOUNTED_CIFS_DIRS)
for i in ${!MOUNTED_DIRS_ARRAY[@]}
do
umount -l ${MOUNTED_DIRS_ARRAY[i]}
done
so that it looks like this:
[jam@ikaros ~]$ cat /etc/rc.local.shutdown
#!/bin/bash
# /etc/rc.local.shutdown: Local shutdown script.
echo "Unmounting samba-cifs filesystems..."
MOUNTED_CIFS_DIRS=`mount -t cifs| cut -d\ -f3`
MOUNTED_DIRS_ARRAY=($MOUNTED_CIFS_DIRS)
for i in ${!MOUNTED_DIRS_ARRAY[@]}
do
umount -l ${MOUNTED_DIRS_ARRAY[i]}
done
[jam@ikaros ~]$
this will unmount the cifs mounts before the network goes down. Thanks.