Comment 57 for bug 286828

So to summarize your summary,

if you don't have any control over the server - which was running fine with the 8.04 client - you're stuffed! I don't understand how a bug in the server is causing something that works under 8.04 to stop working under 8.10, and I really can't understand why fixing this doesn't seem to be an urgent issue. It wasn't the introduction of anything new on the server side that caused this problem to arise, it was an update to the client - or am I still missing something?

Regards,

mipper

> Just to summarize again:
> 1) A few versions of Samba server had a bug parsing DFS paths (fixed
> in Samba server 3.0.26). You can see which version of server you have
> mounted to by doing "cat /proc/fs/cifs/Debug
> Data " on the client). When the Linux CIFS client added support for
> DFS last year, those few (relatively old) versions of Samba servers
> (when configured for DFS) exhibited problems with certain path based
> calls (setting the file size was one) which can break some common
> applications.

> 2) Although disabling the cifs unix extensions (mount option "nounix")
> may help in some cases, the best solution is to upgrade the Samba
> server to any of the more recent versions of the server. If that is
> not possible, disabling DFS support (see comment 50) in the server is
> another possibility (on future kernels, 2.6.28 includes this e.g., you
> will be able to specify "nodfs" as a mount option on the client to
> workaround the problems on these two versions of Samba).