[Bug 286828] Re: Access to samba 3.0.24-3.0.25 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10

2008-11-25 Thread Holger Schletz
A warning about the "msdfs root = no" workaround: This broke some of the drive mappings on Windows clients. Shares that are mapped via "NET USE" (like in a logon script) don't seem to be affected - a name is a name - but connections manually set up through the GUI seem to store some additional info

[Bug 286828] Re: Access to samba 3.0.24-3.0.25 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10

2008-11-24 Thread Holger Schletz
Another workaround: set "msdfs root = no" on affected shares or in the [global] section of smb.conf. If you don't use DFS at all you can also disable it completely with "host msdfs = no". This also made UNIX extensions finally work. Note that I had to remount all shares to get things working. I do

[Bug 286828] Re: CIFS share broken after upgrade from 8.04 -> 8.10

2008-11-18 Thread Holger Schletz
I can confirm that shares work with kernel 2.6.25 from the intrepid repos. I still had to mount the shares with the "nounix" option. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ports/+bug/291487 if you need to compile kernel modules with the 2.6.25 kernel. Downgrading the kernel and/or dis