I've just set up OpenVPN and thought it would be nice to mount the samba shares that I have on my home network. I normally use cifs for this, but it does not seem to be available:

root@vserver:/mnt # mount -t cifs //slugger-vpn/share slugger
Password:
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by the system
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

And from the man page:
And, just on the off-chance:

# uname -r
2.6.23.8-domU-linode2
# modprobe cifs
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.23.8-domU-linode2/modules.dep: No such file or directory

Can cifs be used on Xen linodes? I'm on atlanta29.

Thanks,
Bernie

EDIT: just for the record, smbfs seems to work fine, but I have had troubles with it in the past, so tend to only use cifs these days

root@you:~# uname -a
Linux you 2.6.18-domU-linode4 #1 SMP Fri Jan 11 10:27:33 EST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5335  @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
root@you:~# zgrep CIFS /proc/config.gz
# CONFIG_CIFS is not set

Saying that, the Linode guys are pretty good about adding stuff into the kernel when its asked for.

The latest xen kernel (2.6.18.8-domU-linode5) supports modules, so once caker gets a source tree up somewhere, you should be able to build your own cifs module.

Might be a good time for a support request ...

Good things come to those who wait...