On Tue, 22 May 2012 15:24:56 +0200 Michael Wood <esiotrot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 21 May 2012 17:44, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:59:44 -0500 > > <Scott_Purcell@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Early responses are not encouraging. It sounds like this was not an accidently happening, but they *intend* to obscure the root level of the share. > >> > >> Might it work to try to downgrade my Samba installation to a version prior to the introduction of this bug? If so, do you know which version would be the latest to still work? > >> > > > > No, it was not intentional, just not simple to fix. > > I think you misinterpreted Scott's message :) > > I read it to mean that the people who set up his NAS intended for the > root of the share to be "obscured". Not that the cifsfs developers > intended to break things. > Yes, he mailed that to me privately later. He also asked whether downgrading the client's kernel might help here. It might, but you'll need to go pretty far back -- pre-3.0 or so... -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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
