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  1. Bug #286828
  2. Comment #96

Comment 96 for bug 286828

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Steve French (smfrench) wrote :

Simplifying:
1) older smbfs/smbmount had a "bug": they didn't support DFS (which Windows clients do, and Linux cifs client does) which is a critical feature of the protocol in multiple server environments
2) Windows does not support Unix Extensions

Samba server introduced a bug (long since fixed) which affects clients which support BOTH

Asking the kernel cifs client to always disable DFS support (ie without a mount option) to work around a bug in one server version would make things even worse because that would hurt accessing all of the servers that have working DFS support.