Dear All,

I have just switched over from FC5 to FC6; kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6

Since I am the only linux user in a large Windows organization, I have always relied heavily on mounting my organization's Windows file system using

mount -t smbs -o credentials=<credentials_file>,uid=<value>,gid=<value>,debug=4 \\\\machine_name\\directory <mount_point>

This has worked beautifully for years, all through RH7,8,9, FC -- FC5. (In FC5 I had to change the 'smbs' file system to 'cifs'; otherwise, things worked just fine.)

However, now in FC6, this no longer works; whatever I try.

The mount command seems to complete fine; but when I do an 'ls' on the mount point I'm told:

ls: reading directory /mnt/P: Invalid argument

I have searched the kernel bug lists a bit and I think that this is a kernel bug, but I'm not sure.

see e.g., https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=211070

Can someone confirm this? And if so, is there a workaround? I'm totally cutoff from my institutional file systems :-(

Well, if it is a kernel bug, one possible workaround would be to use a different kernel, for example compiling your own.

Generally Red Hat are pretty quick about providing updates though, there should be another version of the kernel available soon.

Just updated the kernel to 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. Problem seems fixed !! What a relief!

RR