Bug#504584: [kernel] mount.cifs fails to mount MS DFS shares (object is remote)

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

tags 504584 moreinfo
thanks

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:35:05PM +0100, ulrich.meier@ulmeco.ch wrote:
> Package: kernel
> Version: 2.6.26
> Severity: important
> 
> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> unable to mount microsoft dfs share
> 
> as root:
> mount -t cifs -o credentials=/root/user.txt -o workgroup=WG -o rw
> //test.domain.de/DB_001/Project/BO2 /root/bo2
> 
> error message: object is remote
> 
> the same share can be accessed using smbclient.
> 
> (Ubuntu 8.1 with 2.6.27 does not work either)

Does is work with more recent kernels, e.g. the version from Debian
Squeeze (6.0)?

Cheers,
        Moritz