We have lots of DFS links setup on samba servers. They are mostly served from SLES w/ Samba 3.0.36 Under windows I can map to a dfs root called \\server\admin and then I see several "directories" which are symlinks on the samba server. When I cd into a directory, Samba gives the client a dfs redirect and off I go to another server. When I do this from RH 6.2 (mount.cifs 4.8.1) the I get things like: $ ls ls: cannot read symbolic link cfengine: Object is remote ls: cannot read symbolic link cron: Object is remote then if I try: $ cd cfengine -bash: cd: cfengine: Not a directory I disabled unix extensions on the dfs server, but it doesn't seem to matter. It works w/ CIFS if I map/mount to \\server\admin\cfengine directly, but I'm used to connecting to the higher level directory. Should this work? Could this work? CIFS debug generates: fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_revalidate_dentry as Xid: 15308 with uid: 500 fs/cifs/inode.c: Revalidate: //server/admin inode 0xffff8801461f0328 count 2 dentry: 0xffff88011015e180 d_time 72057589759737855 jiffies 4320580305 fs/cifs/inode.c: Getting info on //server/admin fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: In QPathInfo (Unix) the path //server/admin fs/cifs/transport.c: For smb_command 50 fs/cifs/transport.c: Sending smb: total_len 104 fs/cifs/connect.c: rfc1002 length 0xa4 fs/cifs/transport.c: cifs_sync_mid_result: cmd=50 mid=148 state=4 fs/cifs/inode.c: cifs_revalidate_cache: revalidating inode 147927 fs/cifs/inode.c: cifs_revalidate_cache: inode 147927 is unchanged fs/cifs/inode.c: inode 0xffff8801461f0328 old_time=4320519230 new_time=4320580322 fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_revalidate_dentry (xid = 15308) rc = 0 fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_revalidate_dentry as Xid: 15309 with uid: 500 fs/cifs/inode.c: Revalidate: //server/admin/cron inode 0xffff8801461f0af0 count 1 dentry: 0xffff8801101a0ec0 d_time 0 jiffies 4320580322 fs/cifs/inode.c: Getting info on //server/admin/cron fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: In QPathInfo (Unix) the path //server/admin/cron fs/cifs/transport.c: For smb_command 50 fs/cifs/transport.c: Sending smb: total_len 114 fs/cifs/connect.c: rfc1002 length 0x27 fs/cifs/connect.c: invalid transact2 word count fs/cifs/transport.c: cifs_sync_mid_result: cmd=50 mid=149 state=4 Status code returned 0xc0000257 NT_STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED fs/cifs/netmisc.c: Mapping smb error code 3 to POSIX err -66 fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: Send error in QPathInfo = -66 fs/cifs/inode.c: creating fake fattr for DFS referral fs/cifs/inode.c: cifs_revalidate_cache: revalidating inode 147930 fs/cifs/inode.c: cifs_revalidate_cache: invalidating inode 147930 mapping fs/cifs/inode.c: inode 0xffff8801461f0af0 old_time=4320511879 new_time=4320580325 fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_revalidate_dentry (xid = 15309) rc = 0 fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_revalidate_dentry as Xid: 15310 with uid: 500 fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_revalidate_dentry (xid = 15310) rc = 0 fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: in cifs_revalidate_dentry as Xid: 15311 with uid: 500 fs/cifs/inode.c: CIFS VFS: leaving cifs_revalidate_dentry (xid = 15311) rc = 0 Bill Marshall -- 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
