Difference between smbmount mount.cifs & mount -t

[gessi2000]

Hello,

I am wondering what exactly is the difference between:
smbmount
mount.cifs
mount -t smbfs
mount -t cifs

I am asking because a NAS vendor supports 'mount -t smbfs'. Anyway I came across the other choices and would like to know of this is depend on the server (Samba, windows 2000&2003&2008 etc.) and what is exactly important to know about it.

[jledhead]

I would say first don't use smbfs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920

its problems probably won't get fixed.

smbmount I believe is a tool of samba

mount is a system tool

mount.cifs is part of the smbfs package.

I would say mount.cifs and mount -t cifs would be more appropriate.