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

[Joe]

This is a known problem - same thing happened to me.
And changes in the 2.6 kernel are not backported to 2.4 (that's ok :).
See thread:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2004-October/000451.html
.....
http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2004-October/000471.html

BTW /etc/fstab entry
//server/share /mnt/mntpoint cifs ro,credentials=foo/bar/cifs.cred,port=139,file_mode=0444,dir_mode=0555,rsize=8192,domain=DOMAIN.EDU 0 0
worked for me using multiple machines and moint points.

Joe


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 coo at isaacs.dk wrote:
> 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