We do not test jCIFS clients and we know of cases where customer have had problems with them.

Cheers,
Chris

There is a recent KB: 000493096 -- or is that already a direct response to your SR?

-- Peter

jcifs does only smb1 (afaik).

i would not recommend to implement anything on ancient protocols.

Thanks sluetze,

Not being SMB2/SMB3 compliant would be a killer. Avoiding jCIFS is exactly my intent.

Thanks Peter,

I haven't gotten a response to the SR yet so this KB will be very useful.

Thanks Chris,

One more nail in it's coffin.

If the task were mine to do I would certainly use NFS.

It's a long story but the developers want to be able to access a SMB share from an AIX server. I wasn't part of the design team so I'm not sure why they want to do this. I suspect the way that Isilon merges NTFS and POSIX permissions and ownership is a big factor. They seem to have a lot of trouble understanding what is going on and they keep having the same problems over and over.

Why not try NFS?  AIX has good NFS support, and multiprotocol (NFS and CIFS access to the same data) is quite easy to do on Isilon, with a little pre-thought and planning.