Description of problem: The mount.cifs command includes a 'nounix' mount option: # /sbin/mount.cifs --help ... Less commonly used options: ... directio,nounix,cifsacl,sec=<authentication mechanism>,sign ^^^^^^ However, the mount.cifs(8) man page does not describe this option. Newer man pages include this description: nounix Disable the CIFS Unix Extensions for this mount. This can be useful in order to turn off multiple settings at once. This includes POSIX acls, POSIX locks, POSIX paths, symlink support and retrieving uids/gids/mode from the server. This can also be useful to work around a bug in a server that supports Unix Extensions. See section INODE NUMBERS for more information. Please update the mount.cifs(8) man page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba3x-client-3.3.8-0.52.el5_5 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. /sbin/mount.cifs --help | grep --color nounix 2. man 8 mount.cifs 3. search for nounix Actual results: no description of nounix mount option Expected results: documentation for nounix mount option Additional info:
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It looks like the current samba3x already has this manpage section. Closing this as a duplicate of bug 459842 as that was the one where samba3x got rebased. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 459842 ***
Hi Jeff, Customer is using samba instead of samba3x. The 'nounix' option is available in samba-client (no samba3x-client) mount.cifs, and they would like to see all available options documented in the mount.cifs man page: [root@rhel5564b ~]# man mount.cifs | grep nounix | wc -l 0 [root@rhel5564b ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/man/man8/mount.cifs.8.gz samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_5.1 [root@rhel5564b ~]# yum update samba-client Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Skipping security plugin, no data Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update
Julio, I think you want to attach your customer's case to bug 621926. This one is against samba3x which is already fixed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 459842 ***