[linux-cifs-client] CIFS home mount won't allow KDE to run

[Wilhelm Meier]

Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 13:58 schrieb Bjørn Tore Sund:
> Paul Waldo wrote:
> > Wilhelm Meier wrote:
> >> Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 15:06 schrieb Paul Waldo:
> >>
> >> this is a known problem. Be sure to use the serverino option for
> >> mount.cifs / mounting.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, Wilhelm.  That seemed to do the trick--I can now
> > start KDE.  I have two more questions:
> > 1. You say this is a known problem.  Is it documented anywhere?  I
> > googled (what I thought was) appropriately, but didn't find anything.
> > If there is a list of known issues, I'd like to become aware of them.
>
> Wilhelm knew about it. :)

... and Björn (he put the information into the pam-cifs docs)

> You'll find the question answered a few times on mailing lists, but not
> often - Linux CIFS home directories with KDE (Gnome works fine without
> serverino, or at least used to) just isn't done all that often.  I've
> never seen it anywhere official.  I know it's in the pam_cifs
> documentation because I put it there, but that's not connected to the
> cifs project itself.
>
> > 2. Are there any ramifications or gotcha's I need to know about using
> > the serverino option?
>
> None that I know of.  You'll have issues if your server doesn't support
> sending back real inode numbers (I believe NT4 would give you problems),
> but you shouldn't see more breakage than what comes when serverino isn't
> specified in the first place.

the only thing I'm aware of is duplicate i-nodes if the exported fs spreads 
over several fs-instances. But mostly this is uncommon for user-homes.

>
> Bjørn

-- 
Wilhelm