[Samba] Trouble with mount.cifs while smbclient works (Ubuntu 12.04)

[Michael Wood]

On 21 May 2012 17:44, Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:59:44 -0500
> <Scott_Purcell at Dell.com> wrote:
>
>> Early responses are not encouraging.  It sounds like this was not an accidently happening, but they *intend* to obscure the root level of the share.
>>
>> Might it work to try to downgrade my Samba installation to a version prior to the introduction of this bug?  If so, do you know which version would be the latest to still work?
>>
>
> No, it was not intentional, just not simple to fix.

I think you misinterpreted Scott's message :)

I read it to mean that the people who set up his NAS intended for the
root of the share to be "obscured".  Not that the cifsfs developers
intended to break things.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>