[linux-cifs-client] Add support infrastructure for Named Pipe

[Steve French]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:26:20AM -0500, Shirish Pargaonkar wrote:
>> Do we need to have a mount i.e. would a tree connection to
>> IPC$ share suffice for a WINE app user id by obtaining
>> credentials for that user id via cifs upcall using a
>> arbitrary security mechanism when that user very first
>> time accesses a named pipe (e.g. during CreateFile)?
>
> Regarding the credentials: Either you have Kerberos, or for
> NTLM winbind can provide a credential store. If anything
> does not work sufficiently with winbind, we will fix it.

Yes.  That is excellent.   I think the issue of getting
credentials is independent though of whether to add the missing
SMB to the kernel though.



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Thanks,

Steve