From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932081AbVHHO1A (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:27:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932084AbVHHO1A (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:27:00 -0400 Received: from no-dns-yet.demon.co.uk ([195.173.84.2]:26128 "EHLO monitor.bluefinger.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932081AbVHHO07 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:26:59 -0400 From: Thomas Chiverton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: cifs kernel module and MS DFS shares [2.6.12-1.1411_FC4] Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:26:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508081526.55555@moveAlongNothingToSeeHere> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (I was referred here by Thomas Anders over on the Samba list, as apparently it's the cifs kernel module at fault ?). I am having problems mounting a DFS share using mount.cifs, even though it works in smbclient fine. After mounting, each top-level directory contains a copy of the top level directory. Turning up debug and verbose don't seem to help. Any ideas ? I can mount non-DFS shares from the same CIFS server fine. [tom@charles-compaq@1306 /home/tom/Projects/gbb-core-app ] smbclient //exchsvr/dfs -U tchiverton -W BLUEFINGER Password: Domain=[BLUEFINGER] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 1] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2] smb: \> ls . D 0 Sun Aug 7 16:06:52 2005 .. D 0 Sun Aug 7 16:06:52 2005 Applications D 0 Sun Aug 7 16:06:52 2005 Common D 0 Sun Aug 7 13:54:40 2005 Consultants D 0 Sun Aug 7 14:01:50 2005 Directors D 0 Sun Aug 7 14:06:19 2005 Engineering D 0 Sun Aug 7 13:57:48 2005 Finance D 0 Sun Aug 7 13:53:59 2005 Management D 0 Sun Aug 7 10:37:01 2005 Software Development D 0 Sun Aug 7 13:58:54 2005 Version D 0 Sun Aug 7 14:04:56 2005 WinTA Data D 0 Sun Aug 7 14:10:29 2005 44955 blocks of size 2097152. 25934 blocks available smb: \> cd Consultants smb: \Consultants\> ls . D 0 Wed Aug 3 11:51:57 2005 .. D 0 Sun Aug 7 12:19:03 2005 NO D 0 Thu Nov 18 10:35:49 2004 EEZ Course D 0 Wed Mar 23 13:48:54 2005 BlueFinger Software Library D 0 Tue Jul 5 13:39:32 2005 IM D 0 Wed Aug 3 13:19:30 2005 55995 blocks of size 1048576. 9499 blocks available smb: \Consultants\> exit Great ! So now... [root@charles-compaq gbb_domain]# mount.cifs //exchsvr/dfs /mnt/dfs/ -o user=tchiverton,domain=BLUEFINGER Password: [root@charles-compaq gbb_domain]# ls /mnt/dfs/ Applications Consultants Engineering Management Version Common Directors Finance Software Development WinTA Data [root@charles-compaq gbb_domain]# ls /mnt/dfs/Consultants/ Applications Consultants Engineering Management Version Common Directors Finance Software Development WinTA Data [root@charles-compaq gbb_domain]# Bah :-( -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer