> For the record, I'm not 100% opposed to adding something like this as a > workaround. What would probably be better would be a way for someone to > specify the SPN in the mount options. The kernel could then pass that > to the upcall and we wouldn't need to trust this string from the > server. Admins would of course need to know what SPN to put in there > however. Something like: > > -o spn=cifs/otherhostname.example.com Sounds good. In our AD environment, an admin can do ldapsearch "(cn=$COMPUTERNAME)" serviceprincipalname to get the supported principal name(s). Martin -- Dr. Martin Wilck PRIMERGY System Software Engineer x86 Server Engineering FUJITSU Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 33106 Paderborn, Germany Phone: ++49 5251 525 2796 Fax: ++49 5251 525 2820 Email: martin.wilck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://ts.fujitsu.com Company Details: http://ts.fujitsu.com/imprint -- 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