Linux kernel 2.6 smbfs bugs

[Steven French]

> I understand that limiting the scope of CIFS
> VFS server support makes the code simpler.  At
> the same time, NT and Win9x all speak the
> "NT LM 0.12" dialect.  I think that a single
> dialect is a reasonable quanta.

I don't disagree.   It is probably a reasonable time to make the small
changes to get the cifs vfs working with all NTLM 012 dialect servers
(Win98/ME and NT 4 in particular) not just Windows 2000 and above, Samba,
NetApp etc.   I have done some experiments already - it won't be too hard.


Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com