Bug 460135

Summary: CIFS: enable DFS support as tech-preview in RHEL5.3
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jeff Layton <jlayton>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jeff Layton <jlayton>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version: 5.3CC: riek, rwheeler, ssorce, steved, villapla
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Description Jeff Layton 2008-08-26 12:11:49 UTC
As part of the CIFS update for RHEL5.3, I've gone ahead and backported the patches to allow DFS support. This feature is fairly new upstream though and I don't think we want to "officially" support it yet. Opening this BZ to track enabling this as tech preview.

The actual work for this was done in bug 453462.

Comment 2 Jeff Layton 2008-09-13 19:00:14 UTC
Committed with CIFS update in -113.el5

Comment 5 Juanjo Villaplana 2008-10-10 17:50:18 UTC
At our site we are very interested on getting DFS CIFS mounts to work. Please let us know when a testing kernel is available.

Regards,
              Juanjo

Comment 6 Jeff Layton 2008-10-10 18:37:23 UTC
I have some test kernels with these patches on my people page:

http://people.redhat.com/jlayton

...DFS also requires the cifs.upcall program, that should be part of the samba-client package in 5.3.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 20:14:42 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html