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A one may see with the regression recently introduced by the lastest security updates of the samba package, using smbfs is currently not possible with etch Samba servers if they're up-to-date.

I'm afraid that people who experience this bug just deserve what they got. Smbfs is bloody deprecated for years in favor of the cifs filesystem (samba upstream QA work never includes checks for smbfs stuff). CIFS Userland utilities are provided in the smbfs Debian package so the switch is mostly a matter of a few minutes work and manpage reading (some options might differ).

We should have told this earlier, probably, sorry for this. But it is now time to say it and even shoult it: if you're using smbfs, you're shooting in your own foot.

So, check you machines and if you use "smbmount", consider switching (sams for positive output of "grep smbfs /etc/fstab"): it's quite likely that it is removed in next versions of samba as Steve Langasek, myself and other samba package maintainers are really fed up with bugs related to that obsolete thing.