samba - Oct 2002 - Off-topic tcpdump/samba

Hello all

I've been doing some TCP dumps of Samba among other things, to try to
fish out a slight communications glitch that I suspect has to do with a
bad IP stack on an older machine, and I'm wondering if any of you could
help make my life a bit easier:

When doing the dump, I used the '-C' flag which causes capture files to
be rotated when they reach a certain size.  I made the mistake of making
this size too small, and now need to recombine all those files so I can
avoid having to analyze file upon file of dump data separately.  Using
cat did NOT work, as analysis would never go beyond the equivalent of
the first dump file.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Another question:  I have set up SSL to work for Samba clients, have 2
clients plus Samba PDC all using the same CA, all have their cert's
signed by this CA, and a local copy of the CA cert (NOT the private key)
and all have the required parameters set, BUT: the clients can only talk
to the PDC, not each other!!  Do I need to publish the CA's private key
to the client machines to make this happen (hope NOT!!), or what am I
missing?

Best

Diego

Diego Rivera wrote:
> 
> Hello all
> 
> I've been doing some TCP dumps of Samba among other things, to try to
> fish out a slight communications glitch that I suspect has to do with a
> bad IP stack on an older machine, and I'm wondering if any of you could
> help make my life a bit easier:
> 
> When doing the dump, I used the '-C' flag which causes capture
files to
> be rotated when they reach a certain size.  I made the mistake of making
> this size too small, and now need to recombine all those files so I can
> avoid having to analyze file upon file of dump data separately.  Using
> cat did NOT work, as analysis would never go beyond the equivalent of
> the first dump file.
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
If you are looking at trying to parse SMB, I would highly recomend
ethereal.  It may wall still dislike parsing split files, but it's SMB
knowlege is much better.
> Another question:  I have set up SSL to work for Samba clients, have 2
> clients plus Samba PDC all using the same CA, all have their cert's
> signed by this CA, and a local copy of the CA cert (NOT the private key)
> and all have the required parameters set, BUT: the clients can only talk
> to the PDC, not each other!!  Do I need to publish the CA's private key
> to the client machines to make this happen (hope NOT!!), or what am I
> missing?
Samba's SSL support is being withdrawn, and will not be present in 3.0. 
Why do you need SSL?  

Andrew Bartlett

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