Information about the package, cifs-utils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cifs-utils package is designed for, Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts.
Package Name:
cifs-utils
Summary:
Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts
Description:
The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a SMB/CIFS share onto a client and use it as if it were a standard Linux file system.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.8.1
Release:
20.el6
Size:
65 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3
Control the cifs-utils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install cifs-utils
This command will install cifs-utils on the server.
yum remove cifs-utils
This command will un-install cifs-utils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cifs-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove cifs-utils
This command will un-install cifs-utils on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cifs-utils when using the -y flag.
yum update cifs-utils
This command will update cifs-utils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cifs-utils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update cifs-utils
This command will update cifs-utils to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cifs-utils when using the -y flag.
yum info cifs-utils
This command will show you core information about the cifs-utils package.
yum deplist cifs-utils
This command will show you the dependencies for cifs-utils. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update cifs-utils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on cifs-utils. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.