[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#801624: cifs-utils: mounting Windows DFS shares fail

[Mathieu Parent]

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:37:14 -0500 Jimmy Crossley
<jcrossley at conetrix.com> wrote:
> Package: cifs-utils
> Version: 2:6.4-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Mounting a Windows DFS (Distributed File System) fails with "mount error(115):
> Operation now in progress"
>
> sudo mount -t cifs //internal.compu-share.com/data/ /mnt/data -o
> noserverino,\user=jcrossley,pass=$PASSWORD,domain=compu-share,sec=ntlm
> mount error(115): Operation now in progress
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

You have an antislash (\) before user. Can you double-check?

> Using the actual name of the file server instead of the DFS name works.
>
> In this example, the DNS entry for internal.compu-share.com points to three
> Windows Servers, which have referrals to the actual server.  The server is a
> NetApp.  It appears as though the client is not following the referral.


Can you look at
http://superuser.com/questions/430163/cifs-share-mount-errors and see
if it helps?

Regards

Mathieu Parent