originally at mount time */
                        if ((saved_cap & CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_ACL_CAP) == 0)
                                cap &= ~CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_ACL_CAP;
-                       if ((saved_cap & CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATHNAMES_CAP) == 0)
+                       if ((saved_cap & CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATHNAMES_CAP) == 0) {
+                               if (cap & CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATHNAMES_CAP)
+                                       cERROR(1, ("POSIXPATH support change"));
                                cap &= ~CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATHNAMES_CAP;
+                       } else if ((cap & CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATHNAMES_CAP) == 0) {
+                               cERROR(1, ("possible reconnect error"));
+                               cERROR(1,
+                                       ("server disabled POSIX path support"));
+                       }
                }
 
                cap &= CIFS_UNIX_CAP_MASK;
                        tcon->unix_ext = 0; /* server does not support them */
 
                /* convert forward to back slashes in prepath here if needed */
-               convert_delimiter(cifs_sb->prepath, CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb));
+               if ((cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) == 0)
+                       convert_delimiter(cifs_sb->prepath,
+                                         CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb));
 
                if ((tcon->unix_ext == 0) && (cifs_sb->rsize > (1024 * 127))) {
                        cifs_sb->rsize = 1024 * 127;