[linux-cifs-client] Mounting OS/2 shares with cifs

[Suresh Jayaraman]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:52:17 +0530

>>
>> smbfs has been obsoleted and slated for removal as it has been replaced 
>> by cifs. But as I understand cifs is unusable with OS/2 shares. Some 
>> customers who had been using smbfs to mount OS/2 shares for a long time, 
>> think this is regression introduced by cifs over smbfs and their 
>> installations are going obsolete.
>
>> Given that there is a considerable userbase, do we have a plan to 
>> support mounting OS/2 shares? I would like to hear what is the 
>> community's take on this?
>>
> 
> This should work with current CIFS, but you'll need to build the
> client's kernel with CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH enabled, and enable
> LANMAN passwords in SecurityMode. OS/2 doesn't support anything more
> secure than LANMAN passwords, AFAIK.
> 

Yes, with these options enabled I guess users are able to mount and 
navigate but are hitting -EOPNOTSUPP during open/write.

Any idea what is missing?


Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman