Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael H. Warfield" <> | Subject | Re: Do not use stock RedHat 6.0 kernels with SMBFS! | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:35:38 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alan,
Alan Cox enscribed thusly: > > This problem may also have been present with the SMBFS module > > and smbmount program from the 2.0 kernels. Since I do not maintain > > that version of smbmount, I'm unaware if the problem existed in those > > earlier versions or not.
> As far as I am aware Red Hat, and most of the other vendors ship with the > win95 work around enabled as that (at least was) the normal platform, and > crashing win95 boxes would give Linux a bad name, even if it wasnt Linux > fault.
> The real big problem is that the WIN95 workaround isnt a mount option. Or > better yet autodetected.
One other point about this... While there is a mount option (ugly), the mount option is totally inoperative when the compile option is enabled (yes, I had a slight typo in my previous message where I said enabled twice). Even IF I put the code into smbmount to autodetect the Windows 95 connections (which I want to do), the user space program can not override that compile option if it's enabled. If the compile option is disabled, I can set or clear that "feature" on a mount-by-mount, connection-by-connection, basis. As long as that option is enabled in the build, I'm screwed. I can't do anything from user space to correct the problem.
> Alan
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