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. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
