[Samba] question about CIFS client glitches

[Jeff Layton]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:00:14 -0400
starlight at binnacle.cx wrote:

> At 05:50 PM 9/16/2010 -0500, Steve French wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:39 PM,  <starlight at binnacle.cx> wrote:
> >> Trying out a CIFS mount of a W2K8 x64 file system from CentOS
> >> 5.5 and running into problems, and trying to figure out how to
> >> proceed.
> ...
> >
> >This is quite old kernel, but perhaps it was updated to include more
> >recent fixes - can you view the version information on the file, ie
> >the cifs.ko module (you can do this by running modinfo on 
> >cifs.ko)
> >
> 
> Thank you for the follow-up.  Per my last message this was my 
> being a clueless in regards to the lack of hard/soft link 
> support in the old version.  'modinfo' pegs it as 1.60RH.
> 
> Hopefully RHEL6 will include CIFS file links as it might work 
> better to compile on Linux from a Windows share rather than 
> vice-versa.  'makedepend' runs painfully slow from Windows over
> a Samba share unless IPoIB is used for transport.
> 
> Perhaps I'll try it under Fedora, though in general I find 
> wrestling with the constant change of the moving-target distro 
> too much.
> 
> It is quite encouraging to see CIFS work in general.  Last time 
> I tried three or four years ago the system crashed shortly after 
> issuing the mount command.
> 

RHEL6 is fairly current with mainline code (at least as of this past
spring or so). If it works OK on Fedora, it should be OK in RHEL6.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>