Dear Carl,

> I read on the bug page about the IRIX file manager - it seems the
> solaris file manager causes the same problem.
>
> A truss of the process shows it is looking for a file called
> .DtDirDataType and doing an acl() system call on each share under
> the /cifs directory, thus triggering authentication for each one.
>
> Lucky for me most of our users are command line types.

Thanks for reporting this. The next release will contain a kind of ugly  
workaround for the problem. Most Unix operating systems don't have a  
tradition of browsable automounters. User interface programs on these  
platforms often trigger the automounting by listing directory contents and  
following symbolic links in advance.

The ugly workaround consists of disabling the browsing, leaving the bare  
functionality of a Sun-like NFS automounter. Only after you access a resource  
by name, it will become available in /CIFS. You can then use the automounter  
by having a symbolic link point into /CIFS.

The release date of this next release is not known now. We want to implement  
a couple of detail improvements before the release.

Regards, Christian.

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Dipl.-Ing. Christian Starkjohann
Objective Development
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