[linux-cifs-client] cannot write to file after move to 2.6.27 from 2.6.25.4

[Timothee Besset]

Jeff Layton wrote:

[..]
>
> I *think* some older samba versions had semi-broken DFS support. CIFS
> DFS support went into 2.6.26 (I think). It may be that 2.6.25 didn't
> send fully-qualified pathnames like this. So instead of:
>
>   

Yes that's exactly what it is.

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> ...if so, you may be able to work around this by disabling DFS support
> altogether at the server (host msdfs = no). A samba upgrade is probably
> also a good thing to consider here.
>
>   

I tried disabling dfs on the server but that breaks things for some of 
the windows clients on our network. I was going to look at upgrading the 
server, but I see a patch just landed on the list to add a 'nodfs' 
option to the mounts, so I'll try that out .. thank you!

TTimo