[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#480995: Bug#480995: smbfs: Fails to mount.cifs etch samba server in 2.6.25

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 480995 linux-2.6
found 480995 2.6.25-2
tags 480995 upstream
thanks

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:03:40PM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote:

> After upgrading to 2.6.25, I can no longer mount my etch samba server
> share using mount.cifs from my unstable laptop

> The following error is given
>   mount error 20 = Not a directory
>   Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

> Booting in 2.6.24 mounts it fine.

> Windows XP shares are not affected. 

> Doing the following allows me to mount
>   echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled 

This will be a kernel bug, not a bug in the smbfs userspace package.
Reassigning to the correct package.

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