Re: smbfs mounts not following links

[Brent Hills <bhills-nahant-list chspr ubc ca>]

Brent Hills wrote:
> After the upgrade, the smbfs mounts don't follow links on the remote 
> filesystem (my system is the client).  This used to work prior to the 
> upgrade.
> Is there a related configuration change I need to make to regain this 
> functionality?
I resolved my issue by mounting via cifs and setting:
 /sbin/modprobe cifs
 echo "0" > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
For reference,
Brent.