Hi,
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.
OK, thanks!!!
I doubted it could have gone unnoticed for such long a time. I had
looked up the samba bugzilla but of course the bug report was on the
kernel's one. :-)
So I guess you're talking about these two little fellas:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dd61394586dbd9387fe53b325c6807f61734cf89
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c1508ca23653245266e2e3ab69a8dad464f7a569
Which I painlessly merged and tested on my 2.6.39.3 and are working fine
(external behvaviour seems consistent with my ugly patch in that it
retries after a regular mount).
Two newbie-like comments though:
1) I would've expected a more radical fix by skipping to DFS referal
altogether when server has DFS capabilities, even before trying a
regular connect, so to make it consistent with smbclient.
Which (as far as I can tell) has been working like this for a looong time.
2) Shouldn't this/these patch/es also make it into earlier kernels as it
is a (not-so-negligible) bugfix?
Thank you for your patience!
Gerlando
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