[linux-cifs-client] use non-zero vcnumbers patch

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Wed Feb 4 07:20:34 GMT 2009


Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:13:58PM -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>> The problem is that there's theory and there's practice.  I think of the
>> whole VC thing as a vestigial organ, like an appendix.  It isn't used much
>> any more, so how it actually works in any give implementation depends...
> 
> I've added the "reset on zero vc" parameter to smbd a few
> years ago. At that point (w2k3 was already released I think)
> Windows servers still disconnected all others when one with
> vc=0 came in.
> 
> Volker

Cool.  That makes Samba's behavior (or misbehavior, depending upon your
perspective) tunable.  Nifty.  :)

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