On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Robbert Kouprie <robbert@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Shirish Pargaonkar wrote: > >> Robbert, I do not think this error has anything to do with the >> authentication. >> This error in response to a Tree Connect request seems related to MS-DFS >> implementations on Windows 2003 server and on Windows 2008 servers. >> I think you would see this error with sec=ntlmssp also (if that auth >> mech was working). > > I agree with you that this is a different problem, probably not > authentication related. > > But it is still a problem, because the mount fails. So there seems to be a > mount.cifs problem resolving the DFS target. > > Remember, Windows clients are able to connect correctly to this share. > > Regards, > Robbert > Wondering why the very same cifs client does not encounter this error against a Windows 2008 server but does against a Windows 2003 server! Perhaps a Windows client also runs into this error against a Windows 2003 server but does handle/resolve it. -- 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