[Samba] Share mounts in SMBv1 mode, but fails weirdly in SMBv2 mode

[L.P.H. van Belle]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens 
> Hadrien Grasland via samba
> Verzonden: vrijdag 13 oktober 2017 15:34
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Share mounts in SMBv1 mode, but fails 
> weirdly in SMBv2 mode
> 
> Hi Louis,
> 
> Thanks for your reply!
> 
> > This might be a kernel thing. 4.13.5-1 .. ? Archlinux?
> 
> OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, actually.
> 
> At some point, I got tired of rebuilding the entire world all 
> the time 
> because of the millenary tension between the wishes of stable distro 
> maintainers (who would rather not fix what isn't broken, and keep 
> packages as stable as possible) and those of my developer colleagues 
> (who would rather put hard requirements on GCC 7 or CMake 3.9 
> whenever 
> they can get away with it), and decided that I could live with the 
> occasional breakages of a rolling distro at work, as long as rolling 
> back a broken system was easy.
> 
> 
> > There where recently e-mail about this on technical.
> > So maybe its not implemented parts in samba or mount commands (yet)
> I would welcome any clarification on this.
> 
> > And i point to this : smb2_get_dfs_refer
> >>>>> [13424.783242] CIFS VFS: ioctl error in smb2_get_dfs_refer rc=-2
> >>>>> [13424.789504] CIFS VFS: cifs_read_super: get root inode failed
> >   
> > To give an idea..
> > 
> https://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/diff/patches.fi
> xes/0001-CIFS-implement-get_dfs_refer-for-SMB2.patch?id=98a4a0
> 402b8b564b24414c3f2d6b0268f6843341
> 
> I ended up on this kernel patch as well while googling the error, 
> however from a look at the code and the dmesg output, the 
> error seemed 
> to originate from an underlying call to the SMB2_ioctl() function. 
> Juding from the short name and the long list of parameters, this 
> function seemed like a big piece of machinery on its own, so 
> I decided 
> not to investigate it further without extra help. Which is 
> why I came here.
> 
> 
> > This italian site shows exact the same problem.
> > http://forum.html.it/forum/showthread/t-2959605.html
> >
> > I suggest, lower you kernel to 4.9 somewhere around there.
> > See if that works, and then try vers=2.1
> 
> Rolling back the kernel this far may be a bit difficult on 
> Tumbleweed. I 
> never tried it, but the maintainers tend to be quite agressive at 
> removing old package versions from the repos. I guess that going for 
> older kernels is not true to their vision of the rolling 
> release spirit :)
> 
> As for version 2.1, I have tried it already, but unfortunately the 
> server does not seem to support it (dmesg gives a "Dialect 
> not supported 
> by server." error).

Ah, wel at least that a better result, not what you want, but better. 

> 
> Note that I am not in an immediate hurry to get SMBv2 working. SMBv1 
> works for me today, and from discussion with the sysadmins, 
> it will be a 
> long while before they disable it entirely. So I have time to 
> investigate this issue, file any needed bug report to the relevant 
> software projects, and would even help working on the fix myself if I 
> had even a remote idea of what's going on here. Sadly, my technical 
> background is more in scientific computing than distributed 
> filesystems.
> 
> By the way, if you could tell me a bit more about the relationship 
> between the kernel CIFS support and Samba, it might help. I 
> naively went 
> for the samba mailing list first as I got the impression that this is 
> the project where all Linux SMB protocol support is 
> implemented first, 
> but perhaps I should take this to the kernel mailing list(s) instead ?

Phoe.. Good question. It never hurst to ask them also.
I suggest, ask it on samba-technical, or wait a bit, often they look in the samba threah also.

> 
> Thanks for the help,
> Hadrien
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > Greetz,
> >
> > Louis
> >
> >