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

Christian Garling christian.garling at cg-networks.de
Mon Jun 12 10:54:12 UTC 2017


Hi Aurélien,

is there some documentation around where I can read about that? Where 
can I find the information, that I need Kernel 4.11 or above to get DFS 
with SMB2.0 / 2.1 / 3.0 and above working?

Regards, Christian


Am 12.06.2017 um 12:46 schrieb 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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