samba - Apr 2006 - Understanding NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND

[For those on both this and samba-technical - sorry for the duplication. 
  I meant to send this here, but I experienced a user error. :-) ]

I'm having a problem related to the NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
error and I am having a little difficulty discovering what this means.

[root@monkey admin]# smbclient \\\\dapper\\dfs mypassword -U Myuser -E
-W CISNET -D home\\staff\\fran -d0 -Tqca /tmp/test.tar
Domain=[CISNET] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 1]
Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary FINAL.doc
(\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary Revised.doc
(\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2005 LRF FINAL.doc (\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)

... and so on, one for each file in my directory.  Now, the files are
there...

[root@monkey admin]# smbclient \\\\dapper\\dfs mypassword -U Myuser -W
CISNET
Domain=[CISNET] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 1]
Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
smb: \> cd home\staff\fran
smb: \home\staff\fran\> ls
   .                                   D        0  Tue Mar 21 12:01:04 2006
   ..                                  D        0  Tue Mar 21 12:01:04 2006
   2005 LRF                            D        0  Wed Dec 15 13:16:46 2004
   CS640                               D        0  Thu Dec  9 14:01:27 2004

[snip]

smb: \home\staff\fran\> cd "2005 LRF"
smb: \home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\> ls
   .                                   D        0  Wed Dec 15 13:16:46 2004
   ..                                  D        0  Wed Dec 15 13:16:46 2004
   2004 LRF Summary FINAL.doc              232448  Wed Dec 15 13:09:35 2004
   2004 LRF Summary Revised.doc            227840  Fri Dec 10 12:40:39 2004

[snip]

This is happening on smbclient Version 3.0.14a-2.  Has anyone seen this
before or know what causes this error?

Thanks,
Fran

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Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> 
> [For those on both this and samba-technical - sorry for the duplication.
>  I meant to send this here, but I experienced a user error. :-) ]
> 
> I'm having a problem related to the NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
> error and I am having a little difficulty discovering what this means.
> 
> [root@monkey admin]# smbclient \\\\dapper\\dfs mypassword -U Myuser -E
> -W CISNET -D home\\staff\\fran -d0 -Tqca /tmp/test.tar
> Domain=[CISNET] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 1]
> Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
> NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file
> \home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary FINAL.doc
> (\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
> NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file
> \home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary Revised.doc
> (\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
> NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file
> \home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2005 LRF FINAL.doc (\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
Are the directories in \\dapper\dfs in fact dfs
referrals?  The first thing to do is to determine whether
the error is coming from the Windows server or
from smbclient internally.  A level 10 debug log on the client
or a network trace with ethereal will help here.
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> it seems to be that the path \home\staff\fran is invalid
> on the target server.  Can you verify that the full
> directory path does in fact exist ?
Yep, it is definitely there.  I have also made a significant new 
discovery, the older smbclient 3.0.1 can do the operation no problem:

[root@keep /]# smbclient -V
Version 3.0.1
[root@keep /]# smbclient \\\\dapper\\dfs password -U Administrator -E -W 
CISNET -D home\\staff\\fran -d0 -Tqca /tmp/test.tar
[2006/04/18 20:33:57, 0] client/clitar.c:process_tar(1433)
   tar: dumped 27 files and directories
[2006/04/18 20:33:57, 0] client/clitar.c:process_tar(1434)
   Total bytes written: 6813184
[root@keep /]#

[root@monkey ~]# smbclient -V
Version 3.0.14a-2
[root@monkey ~]# smbclient \\\\dapper\\dfs password -U Administrator -E 
-W CISNET -D home\\staff\\fran -d0 -Tqca /tmp/test.tar
Domain=[CISNET] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 1] 
Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file 
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary FINAL.doc 
(\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file 
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary Revised.doc 
(\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file 
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2005 LRF FINAL.doc (\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)

[snip rest of errors]

And the even newer 3.0.21b-2 also fails...

[root@keep ~]# smbclient -V
Version 3.0.21b-2
[root@keep ~]# smbclient \\\\dapper\\dfs password -U Administrator -E -W 
CISNET -D home\\staff\\fran -d0 -Tqca /tmp/test.tar
Domain=[CISNET] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 1] 
Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file 
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary FINAL.doc 
(\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file 
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2004 LRF Summary Revised.doc 
(\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)
NT_STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND opening remote file 
\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\2005 LRF FINAL.doc (\home\staff\fran\2005 LRF\)

[snip]