From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@redhat.com>,
"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>,
"Guenter Kukkukk" <linux@kukkukk.com>,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sfrench@samba.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove smbfs
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:51:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p734pcu5nms.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524f69650801301730m42abca6dn76d21fbdddbe89b5@mail.gmail.com> (Steve French's message of "Wed\, 30 Jan 2008 19\:30\:55 -0600")
"Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com> writes:
>
> There are four common issues with mounting to these very old servers:
> 1) remembering to mount specifying lanman security (sec=lanman)
> 2) remembering to specify the netbios name of the server on mount
> (which is often not be the same as its tcp name) - we can make this
> easier in mount.cifs though
> 3) some missing function (mostly relating to converting unix time to
> DOS time for set time functions, although the other way around works)
> 4) working around various server bugs (a surprising number of these)
Could you perhaps just emulate it transparently in user space mount?
When smbfs is specifies use cifs with the correct legacy options.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 22:08 [2.6 patch] remove smbfs Adrian Bunk
2008-01-28 22:55 ` Steve French
2008-01-30 18:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-30 18:53 ` Steve French
2008-01-30 19:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-31 1:23 ` Steve French
2008-01-31 11:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-31 2:03 ` David Newall
2008-01-31 2:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-31 2:54 ` Steve French
2008-01-30 20:52 ` Guenter Kukkukk
2008-01-30 21:16 ` Guenter Kukkukk
2008-01-30 22:41 ` Jeff Layton
2008-01-30 22:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31 0:34 ` Jeff Layton
2008-01-31 0:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31 1:13 ` Jeff Layton
2008-01-31 1:30 ` Steve French
2008-01-31 8:26 ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2008-01-31 9:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-31 1:34 ` Steve Langasek
2008-01-31 2:58 ` Steve French
2008-01-31 0:58 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-02-05 8:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05 11:31 ` Jeff Layton
2008-02-05 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-05 14:04 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2008-02-05 14:58 ` Steve French
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