samba seems ok as it is, but maybe i'd be interested in trying the smbmount command. However, it's not there.
and i'd have thought i'd be able to install samba with yum and/or apt-get but no luck with either.
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ smbmount
bash: smbmount: command not found
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo yum install samba
Setting up Install Process
No package samba available.
Nothing to do
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ sudo apt-get install yum
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
yum
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 491 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/632 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,200 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package yum.
(Reading database ... 458787 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking yum (from .../archives/yum_3.2.25-2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up yum (3.2.25-2) ...
insserv: warning: script 'K01smail' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'adriane-battery' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'adriane-screenreader' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'firewall' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'knoppix-autoconfig' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'knoppix-halt' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'knoppix-startx' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'knoppix-terminalserver' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'sbl' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'smail' missing LSB tags and overrides
Processing triggers for python-support ...
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$
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