[linux-cifs-client] CIFS userhome and KMail

[Bjoern Tore Sund]

Wilhelm Meier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are using cifs userhomes mounted from a samba server. 
> 
> All is well exept for kmail. kmail crashes reproducible with segv(!). 
> 
> If we try this on the serverside with the local ext3-fs as userhome it 
> works. Strange enough: if we then use this userhome over the 
> samba/linx-cifs mount, it works also.
> 
> We use the serverino option to make kde happy.
> 
> We tried: linux-cifs-1.49/1.50c and debian/samba stable and testing.
> 
> Any hints?

What version of the Samba server are you running?  I've never had issues 
reported on this, on the other hand kmail sucks so badly in lots of 
other ways that we try to steer users away from it so the volume is low 
here.  But there are those who use it...  Our setup is Samba 3.0.24 on 
SLES 10 SP1, and whatever cifs-client comes with fedora core 6 and 7. 
Serverino is the only magic we do clientside, serverside the file system 
settings are:
         unix extensions = yes
         kernel oplocks = yes
         posix locking = yes
         strict locking = no
         locking = yes
         wide links = yes
         mangled names = no

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