[linux-cifs-client] Possible problems with lots of cifs mount

[brendan powers]

I cannot use smbfs because of it doesn't support packet signing. So it
won't work with windowser server 2003 shares for multiple users.  Also
i'm not entirely sure this is a bug with cifs, because i'm having
trouble reproducing it, even though it happens regularly during normal
use.

On 9/4/06, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:23:42AM +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> >
> > I have been finding cifs to be extremely buggy, but reverting back to
> > smbfs usually works fine, have you tried using smbfs instead of cifs and
> > seeing if the problem persists? In fact for a network backup script
> > using cifs, I had to write error catching for quite a lot of different
> > errors that occurred and falling back to smbfs worked every time by
> > using replacing "mount -t cifs" with"mount -t smbfs".
>
> Have you logged bugs at bugzilla.samba.org ? If you don't
> report the bugs we can't fix them.
>
> Jeremy.
>