Another Linux lie: we have file sharing

This is a followup to a recent post on this topic.

Read man mount.cifs and you will realize that its developers are intimately familiar with the versions of SMB protocol that Microsoft upgrades with each version of their OS. But being familiar does not translate into a working solution. At least, not in the oh, so wonderful world of FOSS.

So, you, ivory tower dweller developers, know well to code the support for vers parameter, but you are so inept and inconsiderate that you make zero attempt to detect the server's version and configure CIFS accordingly. You leave it up to us to figure out that we have to use that parameter and to set it to the correct value. As result, your mounted shares exhibit all sorts of problems. How are we supposed to know to supply the vers parameter when the share mounts and work without it, and only later problems occur? You waste our time and efforts, by having us to investigate and research, only to discover that all of those problems could have been avoided had we only used that parameter and set it to the latest version supported by the server?

You deem yourself geniuses. You demand respect. But you do not make a slightest attempt to earn that respect. What does that make you? Right! That makes you genius degenerates.

Sorry that it does not occur to you and that I have to break it to you, but respect demanded is fear, not respect.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 08:26 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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