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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2008-10-16 18:35:21 +0000
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2008-10-16 18:35:21 +0000
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[CIFS] Add nodfs mount option
Older samba server (eg. 3.0.24 from Debian etch) don't work correctly, if DFS paths are used. Such server claim that they support DFS, but fail to process some requests with DFS paths. Starting with Linux 2.6.26, the cifs clients starts sending DFS paths in such situations, rendering it unuseable with older samba servers. The nodfs mount options forces a share to be used with non DFS paths, even if the server claims, that it supports it. Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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@@ -463,6 +463,9 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
with cifs style mandatory byte range locks (and most
cifs servers do not yet support requesting advisory
byte range locks).
+ nodfs Disable DFS (global name space support) even if the
+ server claims to support it. This can help work around
+ a problem with parsing of DFS paths with Samba 3.0.24 server.
remount remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts
or vice versa)
cifsacl Report mode bits (e.g. on stat) based on the Windows ACL for