[Bug 493565] Re: Cifs mount fails when DFS referrals are used by server, keyutils needed

[Etienne Goyer]

Thierry: I cannot think of a downside to having keyutils installed.

mount.cifs can authenticate using NTLM.  In fact, this is the default.
Kerberos authentication for CIFS mount is only really used in Active
Directory context.  In that use-case, the administrator of the machine
mounting a CIFS share already had to do something (join the AD and/or
configure Kerberos), hence my earlier comment.

However, making keyutils a Recommends of smbfs make sense to me.  I
would go for that, as it would simplify the process.  Here's for a
Server paper cut right there!

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Cifs mount fails when DFS referrals are used by server, keyutils needed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493565
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