[linux-cifs-client] Re: Re: [PATCH] CIFS: Add nodfs mount option

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:30:02 +0200
Michael <auslands-kv at gmx.de> wrote:

> Well, you may be right from a technical point of view, but from a users
> point of view it is very much a regression. Before kernel 2.6.25, I could
> use my Samba server perfectly. Now it does no longer work (and there is no
> workaround).
> 
> So, either the Samba guys correct the DFS coding in their 3.0.24 or we need
> the nodfs patch in the kernel.
> 

...or you need to update to a newer samba version. AFAIK, more recent 3.0.z
samba versions have shaken out most of these bugs.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>