[Samba] mount.cifs fails with protocol SMBv2.x on a DFS share

[Aurélien Aptel]

Hi Christian,

Christian Garling via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> writes:
> a few days ago we migrated our shares to a DFS cluster, also we disabled 
> SMBv1 protocol. Now we are no longer able to connect to the shares with 
> our linux workstations. The setup looks like this:

Regardless of you dns config, you need a fairly recent kernel (4.11 or
above) to support DFS with SMB2+.

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