[Pkg-samba-maint] Can't do more than one cifs mount

[Peter Besenbruch]

On Sunday 20 January 2008 22:16:22 you wrote:
> Samba 3.0.28-2 cannot do more than one cifs mount at a time. The second
> mount will segfault and freeze the X server hard. I have two mounts,
> unfortunately, and it is a real pain to umount one before mounting the
> other. It doesn't matter which order they mount in; the second one
> segfaults. Here are the fstab entries:
>
> //192.168.1.11/E /home/peter/mnt/SERVER/E cifs
> defaults,guest,sec=none,noperm    0       0
> //192.168.1.11/shuttle /mnt/SERVER/shuttle cifs
> defaults,guest,sec=none,noperm   0       0

[snip]

I downgraded to version 3.0.24-6etch9. When attempting to mount via cifs, the 
same error occurred. When using smbfs, the issue resolved. 

I agree with others on this list; the switchover to cifs for all Samba mounts 
is premature.

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