Not sure why you would need the Samba components with cifs-utils, they are developed independently, cifs-utils works with the kernel and has nothing to do with Samba. Samba will provide the share to mount, but it is cifs-utils that mounts it.
As for the original problem where configuring fstab would kill the os on a reboot, if it helps anyone else, the video I found suggested installing samba-common, samba-common-bin and smbclient in addition to cifs-utils. Previous to that, I was only installing cifs-utils.
Statistics: Posted by hortimech — Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:24 pm