On 08/02/2010 07:28 PM, Jon Bramley wrote: > Hi all, > I'm experiencing a problem with the linux CIFS client which is > preventing me from using any kernel past 2.6.29, I've been�banging�my > head against this one for some months now, so thought it about time to > ask some experts. I'm running Gentoo linux on a 32 bit machine. > > When connecting to our cifs share on any kernel I've tried since > 2.6.29 (30, 31, 32, 33 and 34) I cannot use CVS on the share, as I get > the following error: > > 515 14:41 $ cvs update > cvs [update aborted]: cannot get working directory: No such file or directory > > Here is the bottom part of�an strace of the above command: > http://paste.org/pastebin/view/21095 > > dmesg always seems to report the following, upon mount, on all kernels > past 2.6.29, which I'm guessing is related: > > �CIFS VFS: server 10.194.0.106 of type Samba 3.0.28a returned > unexpected error on SMB posix open, disabling posix open support. > Check if server update available. > �CIFS VFS: Autodisabling the use of server inode numbers on > \\shared.orbis\shared. This server doesn't seem to support them > properly. Hardlinks will not be recognized on this mount. Consider > mounting with the "noserverino" option to silence this message. > > I've tried mounting the share using the noserverino option, which See options serverino, noserverino and section inode numbers in 'man mount.cifs' for additional information regarding this error. Is there a hardlink involved? > indeed does get rid of the second of those lines in dmesg, but doesn't > fix the problem. Updating the server is not really an option (unless I > can prove very good reason) since this is my work server. One slightly The samba version you are using seem to be quite old.. Does better POSIX support/conformance sound like a good enough reason..? > strange thing, is that some of my colleagues run Ubuntu 10.04, which > uses the 2.6.32 kernel, and they can use the share without problem. What is the server version in this case? Thanks, -- Suresh Jayaraman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
