can't start smbd after install samba posix branch

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On pe, 30 loka 2020, Rowland penny via samba-technical wrote:
> 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:
> > 
> >     On 30/10/2020 07:56, Xiaoli Feng via samba-technical wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > ----- Original Message -----
> >     >> From: "Ralph Boehme via samba-technical"
> >     <samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> >     <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 ?

I think Xiaoli does exactly that -- trying to test the code. So the
questions asked are very much applied here.


-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy