Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem

From: Steve French
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 22:42:00 EST


OK - good progress on filling the requirement for Windows ME/9x support which seems to be the most common reason for still needing smbfs based on various email responses on this thread (if we can get this work finished up fast, it will avoid some double maintainence).

CIFS (in the cifs.git tree) can now handle not just mounts to Windows ME (and probably Windows 9x), but readdir and enough of lookup. Finishing up the remainder should go fast (OpenX instead of NTCreateX is the main piece left).

Of course finding Windows 95, Windows 98, and OS/2 servers is a little harder than it sounds...although scripting a subset of the functional tests that should work should be pretty easy.

I will also put a version of the source that will compile at least as far back as 2.6.9 up on the project page within a few days.


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