RE: DFS root namespace mounting problem...

From: "McCall, Andy \(IT.PFMS\)" <Andy.McCall-JGeVbDYbwmjRZ1oM81ef8Q@public.gmane.org>
To: "steve" <steve-dZ4O0aZtNmBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: <linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: RE: DFS root namespace mounting problem...
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:09:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E091A70C02494A806AD35E6F93AB1A32B89E@HOSMAIL2B.ho.pfgroup.provfin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407255360.4226.1.camel-HkULYb+WTT7YCGPCin2YbQ@public.gmane.org>

>> >> I've just swapped /usr/sbin/cifs.upcall out for a script that 
>> >> echo's test to /tmp/text.txt and cifs.upcall isn't actually being called at all in my case.
>> >
>> >You may already have a ticket.
>> 
>> It might be that the test of swapping out cifs.upcall for a script 
>> won't work, but I tried it on a second identical build server on the 
>> farm that hasn't been touched yet and that also didn't produce 
>> /tmp/text.txt, so either the test is invalid or cifs.upcall isn't getting called.
>
> Is this the problem:
> //fqdn/share
> mounts OK, but
> //domain/share
> doesn't.

Hi Steve,

Not sure what timezone you are in, but I left work so sorry for the delayed reply.

The problem is:

//clusternode.my.windowsdomain.com/share mounts okay

//my.windowsdomain.com/share doesn't mount because the Linux server is resolving the my.windowsdomain.com as
a FQDN server address and attempts to mount the share from the FQDN server address rather than asking for a
referral to a clusternode where the share actually exists.

AM.

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