[linux-cifs-client] CIFS problems with 2.4.28 kernel

[coo at isaacs.dk]

I am using both RedHat 9 and CentOS 3.3 Linux at the office, and need to mount
drives on our Windows server. I had been doing this before using smbmount but since
we went over to a Windows2003 server, I now need to use CIFS. I patched the kernel
for CentOS 3.3 and the 2.4.28 kernel for RH9 to add CIFS support, built them, and
got them running.

But I am having severe problems using mount.cifs and CIFS mounting in general. Some
windows drives I can successfully mount, but it seems very difficult to mount more
than one windows drive on the same Linux machine (seems to be hit or miss).

Worse, I cause a severe crash of our intranet when I try to mount one windows drive
in particular. On the last attempt, after our net became overloaded with messages
between the machines, I pulled the net cord from the Linux machine. The cifsd
process continued to run using nearly all CPU capacity, and I could not seem to kill
it. Had to reboot the machine.

Does anyone know anything about this? Can anything be done? And just why can't I
kill the cifsd process as root?

Thanks for any help!
Steve, Denmark