[linux-cifs-client] Can't mount more than one share at a time on Win2003 domain server

[Thomas Boutell]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Steven French wrote:

> For multiplexing two smb uids over a single tcp session, there seems to
> have been changes in behaviors of windows over the years (and service
> packs) but it is worth checking if this could be fixed with bumping the vc
> num in the smb request header for requests with the second smb uid without
> opening a new tcp session.     We also have to be careful not  if we ever
> tried to open a second tcp session to workaround this - since then you
> could for some Windows server versions run into the issue
> (Windows->Windows) when the client was behind a NAT - that requests to the
> same server from two different sessions from what looked like the same
> client ip address - could ping-pong the tcp sessions closed and open and
> closed and open.

I think I got that. (: So is this a known problem? Is there currently
no reliable workaround for it -- that is, two shares on one Win2003 server 
just can't be done with cifs at this time?

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