[Evolution-hackers] Re: [linux-cifs-client] cifs mounted home directory problems

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:34:54AM +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > You know, I can probably fix this in the smbd server code by detecting
> > a UNIX client and relaxing the "invalid character" checks for things
> > like : etc.
> 
> Wont that just cause interoperability issues?

No - it'll only allow that for clients identified as UNIX. We already
do something similar to give default case sensitive operation for UNIX
clients.

> Not going to help real windows based backends though.

Yes, that needs a client side fix.

> While you're here, slightly OT, I noticed when using smbmount that
> seek(0, END) failed on that filesystem (it was from some netware box i
> think).  Is that the server end?  Is smbmount the way this is done?
> Should all the 'normal' filesystem calls/semantics work on such a
> filesystem, e.g. things like files existing after they're unlinked if
> they're still open, etc.

It depends on the client you're using (smbfs or cifsfs) - each does
different things (although cifsfs is more modern these days).

Jeremy.