Bisecting between v4.10 and v4.11 resulted in finding that this was caused by the following commit: [ef65aaede23f75977af56a8c330bb9be8c6e125c] smb2: Enforce sec= mount option
Reverting it on top of v4.11 makes it go away. Looking more into it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746482 Title: mount.cifs stopped working with protocol version != 1.0 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On a Xenial installation after upgrading to the HWE 4.13.0-32-generic kernel it is not possible to use mount.cifs with -o vers=x.y different than 1.0. Steps to reproduce: 1. Setup a local Samba share with ntlm auth = yes. 2. Run: mount.cifs -o user=<myuser>,sec=ntlm,vers=2.0 //localhost/theshare/ /mnt/theshare 3. This may be repeated for the following versions: 2.0, 2.1, 3.0. Expected result: The share gets mounted at /mnt/theshare. Actual result: The share is not mounted, this gets printed in the console: mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and in dmesg: [ 61.935687] CIFS VFS: Unable to select appropriate authentication method! [ 61.935689] CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -22 [ 61.935744] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -22 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1746482/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp