[linux-cifs-client] Re: dfs path construction fixup for / character in \\server\share

[Steve French]

Q wrote:
> 2. samba with unix-ext disabled returns STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND on the second
> query (5th packet). Replacing '\' with '/' doesn't help. It looks we will not be
> able to make this case work unless we disable server generated inode numbers and fill
> up junction point inode with fake values. Another way to make it working is to fix
> samba code so that it would return inode info (with directory type) on the second \
> call as win2k does.

I agree - and for this reason prefer that we would do the "fake up the
inode" patch rather than patch the QueryPathInfo retry logic as you
did in patch 3 of the series.  We will have to work with older Samba
servers for quite a while.

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Thanks,

Steve