DFS: Accessing SMB targets fail with 'Object is remote'
Issue
- A DFS namespace is mounted on a RHEL SMB client with the
cifsacl
mount option. - Accessing SMB targets fail with
ls: cannot access '/share': Object is remote
|EREMOTE
- These same SMB targets can be accessed if the DFS namespace is not mounted with
cifsacl
- The SMB targets can be mounted through the DFS namespace with
cifsacl
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- DFS
- SMB
cifsacl
mount option
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