I am Using RHEL 7.1 Since i have increase the mounted Windows Partition i get teh following error [71789.175641] CIFS VFS: past SMB end, num to fill 150 i 95 [71789.175766] CIFS VFS: search entry ffff8805e9b4a3b2 began after end of SMB ffff8805e940b884 old entry ffff8805e940a384 [71791.129342] CIFS VFS: bad search response length 30241705 past smb end [71791.129393] CIFS VFS: search entry ffff88055e17a9b2 began after end of SMB ffff88055dacbe00 old entry ffff88055daca940 [71791.129523] CIFS VFS: search entry ffff88055e17a9b2 began after end of SMB ffff88055dacbe00 old entry ffff88055daca940 [71799.739427] CIFS VFS: bad search response length 3014729 past smb end [71799.741519] CIFS VFS: search entry ffff880a7ac527ab began after end of SMB ffff8809c29b3e40 old entry ffff8809c29b0cf0 [71799.743729] CIFS VFS: search entry ffff880a7ac527ab began after end of SMB ffff8809c29b3e40 old entry ffff8809c29b0cf0 [71825.492392] CIFS VFS: bad search response length 30131302 past smb end [71825.494862] CIFS VFS: bad search response length 30316552 past smb end Mount options mount.cifs //172.16.10.92/FZ$ /mnt1/FZ -o sec=ntlmssp -o user=abas,pass=asdFgh1,dom=jwfroehlich,uid=erp,gid=users,iocharset=utf8
Does it fail with mount option vers=3.0? Do you have a wireshark trace of the failure so we can verify that it is a malformed response from the server not a client bug.