[linux-cifs-client] Re: Can't mount NAS device

[Dominik Strasser]

Steve French (smfltc) schrieb:

Hi Steve,
>> I've sent the message below some months ago, but haven't received any 
>> answer. Was the question inappropriate ? Wrong list ? Can somebody 
>> here on the list help me ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Can you help? I tried to do some experiments playing with the command 
>> length which seems to be off, but apart from hangs I didn't produce 
>> anything usable.
>>  
>>
> I don't see the actual error in the log (my guess is that you turned 
> /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI to 1 instead of 7 so
> we don't see some of the higher level errors).   Looks like the server 
> is an older version of Samba
> that supports the early CIFS Unix Extensions but does not support 
> SetFSInfo (for
> negotiating unix capabilities).    After the server fails the 
> SetFSInfo I see a read_inode so it
> looks like this older cifs code, as with current cifs code, can handle 
> the server returning an error on this.
> Basically it looks like mount succeeded if it made it this far.
>
> Perhaps the read_inode on the root directory of the mount succeeds but 
> the server returned that it is not
> a directory?
>
> You can force a different path to this type of server by turning off 
> the Unix/Linux extensions before mount:
>
>    "echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled"
>
> that will force the Linux CIFS client to treat the server more like 
> Windows (and try older levels
> of the same calls - but it will mean that you will not get the owner 
> and mode
> information of the files from the server but will get default values 
> for those)
Thank you very much, this one did the trick!
Do you want me to send more info, is there anything that you want to 
track down ?

Regards

Dominik
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