Comment 16 for bug 236830

Hi wzzrd,

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:05:43AM -0000, wzzrd wrote:
> Steve, can you please tell whether the backport of the cifs.spnego
> upcall helper will be in Hardy? I see the patch to the kernel config has
> been committed, but I'm not sure about the status of the rest of the
> solution.

I believe that we should backport cifs.spnego to hardy, but it looks like
this needs to settle a bit upstream first - upstream is currently in the
process of renaming the binary from cifs.spnego to cifs.upcall, and I want
to see whether that name change takes hold before backporting so that we
don't cause ourselves additional upgrade issues.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 08:55:55AM -0000, wzzrd wrote:
> I'ld really like to help test this, but I am a bit crippled by our
> firewall: not apt for me. Can you provide me with the packages you used
> to install cifs.spnego? I downloaded the new kernel at home yesterday,
> but I am unable to find Samba packages containing the new backported
> helper.

> Can you provide me with (a link to) the Samba packages you used for
> this, Steve?

I've only done quick'n'dirty testing so far, pulling the cifs.spnego binary
from the Debian experimental package for testing. At this point, the best
way to test would be to grab the samba source package from intrepid and
rebuild it for hardy. Test packages from me are going to be a couple of
weeks out yet. It would be nice if someone could confirm in the meantime
that the kernel side works, though, both for previously-working cases and
for the upcall-specific stuff.

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