Good day I'm following advice from the thread at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215375 as to how to report this, so please bear with me and redirect me as necessary. Since commit 76a3c92ec9e0668e4cd0e9ff1782eb68f61a179c, I'm unable to mount a CIFS 1.0 share ( from a media player: mede8er med600x3d, which runs some older linux). Apparently I'm not the only one, according to that thread, though the other affected party there is windows-based. I first logged this in the Gentoo bugtracker (https://bugs.gentoo.org/821895) and a reversion patch is available there for the time being. I understand that some of the encryption methods upon which the original feature relied are to be removed and, as such, the ability to mount these older shares was removed. This is sure to affect anyone running older Windows virtual machines (or older, internally-visible windows hosts) in addition to anyone attempting to connect to shares from esoteric devices like mine. Whilst I understand the desire to clean up code and remove dead branches, I'd really appreciate it if this particular feature remains available either by kernel configuration (which suits me fine, but is likely to be a hassle for anyone running a binary distribution) or via boot parameters. In the mean-time, I'm updating my own sync software to support this older device because if I can't sync media to the player, the device is not very useful to me. Thanks -d
