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

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:15:24 +0530
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de> wrote:

> Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:52:17 +0530
> 
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >> 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?
> >>
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Yes, with these options enabled I guess users are able to mount and 
> navigate but are hitting -EOPNOTSUPP during open/write.
> 
> Any idea what is missing?
> 

Not right offhand. I'd probably start looking at network traces and
cifsFYI output...

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>