----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Perlow To: samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au Cc: sjvn@zd.com ; mfoley@zd.com ; bob@linux-mag.com ; editors@linux-mag.com Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:35 AM Subject: Windows 2000 breaks the samba client Guys: It appears the release of Windows 2000 has broken SMBFS 2.0.6 distributed with samba. This is a major problem. When I try to list and mount shares on Windows 2000 computer from a Linux box running SMBFS and Samba, I get no share listings. This box currently connects to a NT, 98 and Linux samba server. Something is very, very wrong. Apparently I am not having a unique problem because there are several postings on USENET that confirm the bug... not sure if it is sambas problem or 2000's.... Jason Perlow Desktop Columnist, Linux Magazine Contributing Editor, ZD Sm@rt Reseller -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
| Guys: | | It appears the release of Windows 2000 has broken SMBFS 2.0.6 distributed with samba. This is a major problem. When I try to list and mount shares on Windows 2000 computer from a Linux box running SMBFS and Samba, I get no share listings. This box currently connects to a NT, 98 and Linux samba server. Something is very, very wrong. Apparently I am not having a unique problem because there are several postings on USENET that confirm the bug... not sure if it is sambas problem or 2000's.... I have Windows 2000 Professional working just fine with OpenBSD 2.6 and Samba 2.0.6. I am using unencrypted password authentication after applying the Windows 2000 registry patch that comes with Samba. | Jason Perlow Desktop Columnist, Linux Magazine | | Contributing Editor, ZD Sm@rt Reseller Please fix your email client to wrap lines at 80 characters like a standard UNIX client. __ .j0hn [john@maKintosh.com] "I never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
> It appears the release of Windows 2000 has broken SMBFS 2.0.6 distributed with samba. > This is a major problem. When I try to list and mount shares on Windows 2000 computer > from a Linux box running SMBFS and Samba, I get no share listings. This box currently > connects to a NT, 98 and Linux samba server. Something is very, very wrong. Apparently > I am not having a unique problem because there are several postings on USENET that > confirm the bug... not sure if it is sambas problem or 2000's..Ok - what Linux kernel level is this ? smbfs is distributed with the Linux kernel, not Samba. Can you give more details please ? Thanks, Jeremy Allison, Samba Team. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. --------------------------------------------------------
I reported this twice, and you can find info in the archives going back to december describing this exact problem. I even included the debug output. It does connect if I already know a share but it doesn't list shares. They've must of known about it for a long time, but no one who appears to develop for samba has even acknowledged any of the messages or asked for more information or simply said we don't give a rat's rear about W2K compatability, which would be more courteous. It is at least partially W2Ks problem - I used TCPdump and apparently they are negotiating a very old variant of the SMB protocol, so tcpdump can't decode the packets. Or they may have added something too new. In any case W2K isn't handshaking with smbclient the way it does with NT or 98. This is suspicious because Microsoft had to know that samba was out there when it created the W2K stack, so probably intentionally mutated it in some way to make it not work right. But they did the same with windows when DRDOS threatened them.
Ok, I now have Win2k server installed with active directory running. I am using 2.0.7pre1 (snapshot I released) and have no problems connecting to the Win2k server using smbclient and seeing all files. This means the basic connectivity is fine between Samba smbclient and Win2k. I will now try and test smbfs (which I *hate*, so bear with me :-). There is a problem in that smbclient -L doesn't give a share list from the machine (although it does give a workgroup/master browser list, strange...) so I'll look into that also. Cheers, Jeremy Allison, Samba Team. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Buying an operating system without source is like buying a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions. --------------------------------------------------------
On Feb 25 2000, Jeremy Allison wrote:> This means the basic connectivity is fine between Samba smbclient > and Win2k. I will now try and test smbfs (which I *hate*, so bear > with me :-).Hey, Jeremy, why do you hate it? :-) I want to hate it too if I have any reason. :-)) Seriously, what are the problems you see with it?? []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rogerio Brito - rbrito@iname.com - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ Nectar homepage: http://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/opeth/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=