[linux-cifs-client] Re: CIFS non-existant recursive, directory--if you

Steve French (smfltc) smfltc at us.ibm.com
Sun Jul 29 21:49:56 GMT 2007


>>I have one note that wasn't mentioned on that thread, that came to me now.
>>The only way I could get cifs to mount the share with the correct uid/gid
>>was to manually set /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled to 0.
>>    
>>
>
>You usually will get better behavior to Samba mounting with the Linux
>Extensions enabled but wanted to note that with cifs 1.50 (now on the
>download site if you have kernel version later than about 2.6.14 or so
>http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.50.tar.gz) you can
>disable Unix Extensions more easily for just one mount via the new
>cifs  mount option "nosfu"
>  
>
The new mount option is "nounix" not "nosfu" - sorry about the typo.


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