On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:58:46PM +0200, Gerlando Falauto wrote: > my CIFS kernel module (linux 2.6.39.3) fails to mount DFS trees from > Win2k8 servers. > This is somewhat related to: > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8003 hrm... i recognize that one :) reminds me i should go poke the samba team as it's still an issue afaik... > What should be the be best approach for facing this? > Detecting the server has DFS capabilities and start getting DFS > referrals to begin with? > Has this been discussed in the past? I find it hard to believe that > no one has reported this problem before... I think this should be fixed in later kernels... I worked with Jeff and Steve to get some patches in for what I think is the same issue you're describing, and iirc they landed just after 2.6.39 but before 3.0. sean -- -- 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