diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
index 0fdb689b2e..15ed17acfb 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 5.4
+CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 5.5
 CIFS_UTILS_SOURCE  = cifs-utils-$(CIFS_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2
-CIFS_UTILS_SITE    = ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
+CIFS_UTILS_SITE    = http://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils
 
 define CIFS_UTILS_NO_WERROR
 	$(SED) 's/-Werror//' $(@D)/Makefile.in