On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:17 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:21:29AM -0400, simo wrote:
> > Separate modules would mean the user have to know which protocol to
> > choose each time. And this make little sense.
>
> Of course it makes a lot of sense. We don't have anyfs.ko either
> because some ubuntu users are too braindead to know what's on their
> disk.
>
> > You really want to auto-negotiate which protocol to use, because you
> > could have at the same time a connection to a Vista/Longhorn (SMB2)
> > machine and one to a Windows 2000 server (plain SMB) in the same domain
> > using the same credentials.
>
> So what?
I guess DFS referrals can work cross protocol, so if you are redirected
from a longhorn server to a windoes 2000 or a samba server you want to
be able to follow the DFS referral and not return an error.
To do that you need to have either 1 module that support both protocols
or a way from one module to call the other. Just separating the 2
without any glue will not work (or you will have to add some userspace
upcall hack to make it work).
Simo.
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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer
email: [email protected]
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