Mounting cifs DFS share fails with "mount error(40): Too many levels of symbolic links" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
Issue
- Attempting to mount cifs DFS referral produces the error:
mount error(40): Too many levels of symbolic links
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
- kernel-2.6.32-358.el6 and above.
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