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

[Steve French]

Simplifying:
1) older smbfs/smbmount had a "bug":  they didn't support DFS (which Windows clients do, and Linux cifs client does) which is a critical feature of the protocol in multiple server environments
2) Windows does not support Unix Extensions

Samba server introduced a bug (long since fixed) which affects clients
which support BOTH

Asking the kernel cifs client to always disable DFS support (ie without
a mount option) to work around a bug in one server version would make
things even worse because that would hurt accessing all of the servers
that have working DFS support.

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Access to samba 3.0.24-3.0.25 shares using CIFS is broken on 8.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286828
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