can't start smbd after install samba posix branch

[Rowland penny]

On 30/10/2020 08:45, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:29 PM Rowland penny via samba-technical 
> <samba-technical at lists.samba.org 
> <mailto:samba-technical at lists.samba.org>> wrote:
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>     On 30/10/2020 07:56, Xiaoli Feng via samba-technical wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > ----- Original Message -----
>     >> From: "Ralph Boehme via samba-technical"
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>     <mailto:samba-technical at lists.samba.org>>
>     >> To: "Xiaoli Feng" <xifeng at redhat.com
>     <mailto:xifeng at redhat.com>>, "ronnie sahlberg"
>     <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com <mailto:ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>>
>     >> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
>     <mailto:samba-technical at lists.samba.org>, belle at samba.org
>     <mailto:belle at samba.org>
>     >> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 2:30:16 PM
>     >> Subject: Re: can't start smbd after install samba posix branch
>     >>
>     >> Am 10/30/20 um 7:20 AM schrieb Xiaoli Feng via samba-technical:
>     >>> There isn't error log output. Just know the exit code is 1.
>     >>>
>     >>> # smbd -D -d 10
>     >> try
>     >>
>     >> # smbd -iF -d 10
>     > Thanks. Now from log, I know the config file patch is changed to
>     /usr/etc/samba/smb.conf.
>     > Create it. Then smbd can start. But mount option posix is still
>     unsupported.
>     >
>     > # mount //localhost/cifs ~/cifs -o
>     user=root,password=redhat,posix,vers=3.1.1
>     > mount error(95): Operation not supported
>     >
>     > [81490.590281] CIFS VFS: Server does not support mounting with
>     posix SMB3.11 extensions.
>     >
>     > smb.conf:
>     > [global]
>     > server max protocol = SMB3_11
>     > unix extensions = yes
>     > [cifs]
>     > path=/mnt/cifs
>     > writeable=yes
>
>     There is a reason why it doesn't work, you appear to be using one of
>     Jeremy's git branches where he is working on SMBv3 Unix
>     extensions. The
>     operative word is 'working', they do not work yet, so I wouldn't
>     use the
>     branch unless I wanted to test where he had got to 😁
>
>     I suggest you wait until the required patches are finished and
>     have been
>     accepted into Samba master.
>
>     Rowland
>
>
> Not true.
>
> Me as well as Steve and the other cifs.ko kernel developers have used 
> this branch for quite a while.
> We even have a cifs.ko buildbot we use to test this very branch.
>
> ronnie s
>
Sorry, but I treat anything outside of master as experimental and only 
to be used for testing, you might use it, but would you use it in 
production ?

Rowland