Autonegotiate cifs protocol to the highest protocol allowed by smb-server.
Issue
- Support SMB auto-negotiation while mounting CIFS shares.
- After update to RHEL 7.6 release, some directories stopped working. They are giving permission denied to the users when trying to upload.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
- seen on
kernel-3.10.0-957.el7
and above.
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