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Re: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT (fwd)



Sentby V S Ashok: Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:05 PM
Subject: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT (fwd)
Can Some *gurus* elabrate on the subject please.....


> I saw this one only on the ilughyd list. Thought more people would have
> need/comments on this.
> ashok
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> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:01:17 +0530
> From: prasad <prasadb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ilughyd List <ilughyd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Warning - RH 6.0 smbfs corruption with NT
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> ILUG-HYD Mailing List - http://linuxindia.virtualave.net
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> Saw this on lwn - 
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> Do not use the stock Red Hat 6.0 kernels with smbfs 
> if you are mounting shares from Windows NT,98, or 2000 
> servers. A message from Michael Warfield explains why: 
> the stock kernel has been built with a compile option 
> that causes smbfs to only work with Windows 95 servers. 
> All others will see corruption in the file timestamps. 
> If you are running Red Hat 6.0 on a network with Windows 
> servers,you will probably need to build and install 
> your own kernel.
> 
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