[linux-cifs-client] mount.cifs and dfs referrals

[Igor Mammedov]

Werner Maes wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Igor Mammedov [mailto:niallain at gmail.com]
>> Sent: vrijdag 30 januari 2009 13:45
>> To: Werner Maes
>> Cc: linux-cifs-client at lists.samba.org
>> Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] mount.cifs and dfs referrals
>>
>> Werner Maes wrote:
>>> in attachment you'll find
>>>
>>> badcase.pcap (tcpdump output) & badcase.log (the kernel log).
>>>
>>> what's may be strange:
>>>
>>> If I do a mount of the domain first:
>>>
>>> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: num_referrals: 2 dfs flags: 0x1 ...
>> The current code supports only referrals with dfs flags: 0x2. (i.e.
>> refs to storage servers).
>>
>> In this case, the domain server returns referrals without any server
>> holding storage.
>> This case is not implemented yet.
>  
> thank you for your answer !
> will the future code support something like that?
> 
> kind regards
> 
> werner
> 

It will be supported someday.
I sorry but, I've no spare time for it in the near future.


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Best regards,

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Igor Mammedov,
niallain "at" gmail.com