On Tue, 22 May 2012 15:24:56 +0200
Michael Wood <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21 May 2012 17:44, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:59:44 -0500
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Early responses are not encouraging.  It sounds like this was not an 
> >> accidently happening, but they *intend* to obscure the root level of the 
> >> share.
> >>
> >> Might it work to try to downgrade my Samba installation to a version prior 
> >> to the introduction of this bug?  If so, do you know which version would 
> >> be the latest to still work?
> >>
> >
> > No, it was not intentional, just not simple to fix.
> 
> I think you misinterpreted Scott's message :)
> 
> I read it to mean that the people who set up his NAS intended for the
> root of the share to be "obscured".  Not that the cifsfs developers
> intended to break things.
> 

Yes, he mailed that to me privately later. He also asked whether
downgrading the client's kernel might help here. It might, but you'll
need to go pretty far back -- pre-3.0 or so...

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Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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