What’s the difference between smbfs and cifs when mounting Samba
shares? They are not just different names for the same thing.
smbfs supports Windows 98 shares, cifs only supports Windows NT
and newer shares. That is the difference, and nowadays smbfs is
deprecated, obsolete, and support was completely removed from Samba.
So if you’re looking to access Windows 98 shares, you better run an
older GNU/Linux in a virtual machine, a 2010 version should actually
be old enough to be compatible.
20200101/DuckDuckGo cifs host is down windows 98 share
20200101/https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/338563/mounting-old-windows-98-share
Finally, there is another caveat I discovered relating to software
versions. gvfs-smb doesn’t support Windows 7 shares? Why not?
Because it uses a special new feature only available on Windows 10 to
avoid writing files to the host: hidden “junctures” are transparently
placed in the file hierarchy when mounting. So they say… and
they’re not making changes to be able to support Windows 7 shares. So
that means you must use Windows 10 if you want the user-friendliness
of GVFS mounting like you’d get from PCManFM and the like. Otherwise,
if you really want to access Windows 7 shares, you can do so from the
command… though one error will be printed, the mounting will still
be successful regardless.
20200101/DuckDuckGo gvfs-mount windows 7 says password required but public
20200101/https://github.com/Microsoft/VFSForGit/issues/6