[linux-cifs-client] Mounting OS/2 shares with cifs

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:52:17 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de> wrote:

> Hi Steve and all,
> 
> smbfs has been obsoleted and slated for removal as it has been replaced 
> by cifs. But as I understand cifs is unusable with OS/2 shares. Some 
> customers who had been using smbfs to mount OS/2 shares for a long time, 
> think this is regression introduced by cifs over smbfs and their 
> installations are going obsolete.
> 
> I don't have access to a OS/2 box and so I don't have much information 
> on the current status of OS/2 support - all I have is little information 
> from bug reports. Would like to know about the current status and user 
> experiences with recent kernels as well.
> 
> Given that there is a considerable userbase, do we have a plan to 
> support mounting OS/2 shares? I would like to hear what is the 
> community's take on this?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 

This should work with current CIFS, but you'll need to build the
client's kernel with CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH enabled, and enable
LANMAN passwords in SecurityMode. OS/2 doesn't support anything more
secure than LANMAN passwords, AFAIK.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>