[linux-cifs-client] Re: mount.cifs

[Shirish Pargaonkar]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Elmar  wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> I have another question concerning the mount of
>> a DFS W2k3 Share from SLES 9 or 10.
>>
>> Is it possible to mount the DFS and how can I do that ?
>> Which version of the cifs module is needed ?
>
> DFS support was added in kernel version 2.6.26 (cifs 1.53).
> I don't think it was backported to SLES9, but don't know
> about SLES10.   cifs 1.55 had a few important DFS
> fixes, cifs 1.56 fixed a problem with DFS to Samba servers
> (and also a problem when prefixpath is unreachable and
> follows a DFS referral).   cifs 1.58 will add support
> for DFS referrals of the root of a share.
>
> DFS support uses a helper utility (which is part of
> Samba, and now installed by distros as part of the cifs
> client package) to resolve TCP hostnames to ip addresses
> (not needed for the less common case when
> the DFS referrals are configured on the server with
> IP address instead of TCP names)
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
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SLES10 does not have support for DFS.  SP3 has version 1.51 of cifs module.