CIFS client bug

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Eric Jarman <eric.h.jarman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have found a bug with the CIFS client.
> Whenever I create a directory under a CIFS mountpoint, the Container
> Inheritance on the underlying server filesystem is ignored.
>
> The CIFS server is a commercial NAS device, pretending to be windows2000
> with NTFS.
>
> The share is mounted with the following options:
> file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=client,gid=client,noperm,nosetuids
>
> Dist Version: Ubuntu Server 8.04.1 LTS
> Kernel: (linux-image-2.6.24-19-server) 2.6.24-19.41
> Samba: (samba,samba-common) 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5

So why do you think it's the clients fault and not the server?  After
all, why would the client know anything about the server filesystem?

If it's a commercial NAS device, I'd suggest starting with the vendor,
unless I'm missing something...

Brian