[linux-cifs-client] updated CIFS code in RHEL5 test kernels

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:14:48 +0100 (BST)
John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > I think I've got the problems with the RHEL5 DFS code straightened out.
> > I've built a set of test kernels and put them on my RH people page:
> >
> >     http://people.redhat.com/jlayton
> >
> > Kerberos support is also enabled. You will of course need a fairly recent
> > cifs.upcall program configured on the machine.
> >
> > I'd greatly appreciate some help in testing these kernels. This kernel
> > has a lot of patches and I'd like to make sure I squash as many regressions
> > as possible before release.
> 
> I'd be more than happy to test.  Assuming I have a RHEL 5.2 machine, what's
> the easiest way to correctly get/configure a suitable cifs.upcall?
> 

Thanks John,

I pulled down the samba v3-3-test git tree from samba.org and built cifs.upcall
from that. The plan is to add that program to the samba-client package prior to
RHEL 5.3's release, but I don't believe Simo has finished that yet.

Cheers,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>