Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Your understanding is correct. We could also go for a hybrid approach, > where we fallback to option b when option a fails to authenticate. > But for now, I'll resubmit a patch with option a as a fallback when > regular mount fails, just like you had suggested. Please try DFS setups as well. On DFS links a sub-mount is made from the kernel and mount.cifs is not called. Cheers, -- Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, DE GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 247165 (AG München)