can't start smbd after install samba posix branch

[ronnie sahlberg]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:29 PM Rowland penny via samba-technical <
samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 30/10/2020 07:56, Xiaoli Feng via samba-technical wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Ralph Boehme via samba-technical" <
> samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
> >> To: "Xiaoli Feng" <xifeng at redhat.com>, "ronnie sahlberg" <
> ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org, belle at samba.org
> >> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 2:30:16 PM
> >> Subject: Re: can't start smbd after install samba posix branch
> >>
> >> Am 10/30/20 um 7:20 AM schrieb Xiaoli Feng via samba-technical:
> >>> There isn't error log output. Just know the exit code is 1.
> >>>
> >>> # smbd -D -d 10
> >> try
> >>
> >> # smbd -iF -d 10
> > Thanks. Now from log, I know the config file patch is changed to
> /usr/etc/samba/smb.conf.
> > Create it. Then smbd can start. But mount option posix is still
> unsupported.
> >
> > # mount //localhost/cifs ~/cifs -o
> user=root,password=redhat,posix,vers=3.1.1
> > mount error(95): Operation not supported
> >
> > [81490.590281] CIFS VFS: Server does not support mounting with posix
> SMB3.11 extensions.
> >
> > smb.conf:
> > [global]
> > server max protocol = SMB3_11
> > unix extensions = yes
> > [cifs]
> > path=/mnt/cifs
> > writeable=yes
>
> There is a reason why it doesn't work, you appear to be using one of
> Jeremy's git branches where he is working on SMBv3 Unix extensions. The
> operative word is 'working', they do not work yet, so I wouldn't use the
> branch unless I wanted to test where he had got to 😁
>
> I suggest you wait until the required patches are finished and have been
> accepted into Samba master.
>
> Rowland
>

Not true.

Me as well as Steve and the other cifs.ko kernel developers have used this
branch for quite a while.
We even have a cifs.ko buildbot we use to test this very branch.

ronnie s