Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765914AbYAaJve (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:51:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754682AbYAaJv0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:51:26 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:45818 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752815AbYAaJvZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:51:25 -0500 To: "Steve French" Cc: "Jeff Layton" , "Adrian Bunk" , "Guenter Kukkukk" , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sfrench@samba.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove smbfs From: Andi Kleen References: <20080128220835.GF8767@does.not.exist> <200801302216.13788.linux@kukkukk.com> <20080130174103.17ff8197@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <20080130225810.GU29368@does.not.exist> <20080130193412.61c6e2e9@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <20080131004717.GX29368@does.not.exist> <20080130201350.7a576203@tleilax.poochiereds.net> <524f69650801301730m42abca6dn76d21fbdddbe89b5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:51:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <524f69650801301730m42abca6dn76d21fbdddbe89b5@mail.gmail.com> (Steve French's message of "Wed\, 30 Jan 2008 19\:30\:55 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 22 "Steve French" 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/