On Jan 20, 2008 6:54 PM, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I investigated a bit more and found that these cheap HD363N NAS boxes
> > (and many others) don't support "Linux Extensions" - only a simple
> > subset of CIFS - so first you have to shut that off. Here's what I'm
> > using now:
> >
> > echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
> > mkdir etc/nas
> > mount.cifs //192.168.0.105/Music etc/nas -o guest
> > echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
>
> That sounds like a good tip that should go on the wiki. Link to any
> references you dug up.

I would if it actually worked fully for me.

> So why do the extensions get turned on again after the initial connection?

I guess in case you mount a "normal" share afterwards?

> > I suspect a bug in the linux kernal of MVPMC itself?
> Seems unlike. More likely a bug in your NAS box or another artifact of
> the lack of full CIFS support.

A quick Google around shows the (embedded only?) Linux implementation
of CIFS to be a bit "unrobust" - it doesn't gracefully handle servers
that aren't 100% correctly implemented. I think I even saw the
programmer for that module say as much.

Thanks,
Ron

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