On 2007/12/17 11:37 (GMT-0600) David C. Rankin apparently typed: > Felix Miata wrote:
>> CIFS is broken WRT legacy servers (W9x, OS/2), so I need smbfs to work. The >> pain of recompiling a kernel and samba-client keeps me from upgrading to >> 10.3. So, does anyone know of an available shortcut as subject indicates, so >> that I can go ahead and upgrade to 10.3? > Are you sure you can't simply use smbclient with 10.3? On my 10.3 smbclient is far too clumsy to for anything other than occasional or emergency use or testing. > install it is there. I haven't tried mounting a legacy machine (none > here) but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Also, what error are you > getting with cifs? So far it has always worked for me (no test on legacy > machines). I haven't gotten any errors in a long time because I know better than to even try any more. Visit irc://freenode/#samba-os2-technical, ask kukks for an update to the last message on http://www.webservertalk.com/archive217-2007-5-1884057.html and the answer you'll get is that timestamp bugs on legacy/lanman CIFS connects remain unfixed even today. They're absolute bottom barrel priority, with only maybe two people with the capability to develop necessary patches. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
