samba - Jan 2015 - Samba 3.6.1 malformed request: "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" message

Hi guys. Hope you're having great days.

I have cross compiled Samba 3.6.1 for my embedded linux device. It was
very tough considering I couldn't find a tutorial or something that
helps me. Not even on Samba site and its documentation.
Anyway I managed to compile it and I put compiled files into
/usr/local directory in the device like I was supposed to and modified
smb.conf and put it in the right place. Finally I put smbd and nmbd as
daemon in start-up.
Well the problem is that when I try to connect to it using a windows
laptop sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't and windows
says that it couldn't access that network and it's not accessible even
though that I can still ping my device through laptop or ping my
laptop through the device. Although in the terminal of the device I
can see that Samba says something like this every time windows tries
to access:

malformed request: "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1"

But like I said there are times that it works and I can see my shared
directory even though that Samba reports above message.

I googled the message but I almost found nothing. So I was wondering
if somebody knows something about it and puts me in the right
direction so I know where to begin and what to look for.

I forgot one thing. I use ad-hoc wifi network between my device and
laptop not a Ethernet interface and also I assigned static IP
addresses but I don't think that would matter since ping is working
just fine. So I think I can blame Samba for this problem.

If you need further information just tell me.
Thanks.

On 02/01/15 15:29, Mostafa.Y wrote:
> Hi guys. Hope you're having great days.
>
> I have cross compiled Samba 3.6.1 for my embedded linux device. It was
> very tough considering I couldn't find a tutorial or something that
> helps me. Not even on Samba site and its documentation.
> Anyway I managed to compile it and I put compiled files into
> /usr/local directory in the device like I was supposed to and modified
> smb.conf and put it in the right place. Finally I put smbd and nmbd as
> daemon in start-up.
> Well the problem is that when I try to connect to it using a windows
> laptop sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't and windows
> says that it couldn't access that network and it's not accessible
even
> though that I can still ping my device through laptop or ping my
> laptop through the device. Although in the terminal of the device I
> can see that Samba says something like this every time windows tries
> to access:
>
> malformed request: "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1"
>
> But like I said there are times that it works and I can see my shared
> directory even though that Samba reports above message.
>
> I googled the message but I almost found nothing. So I was wondering
> if somebody knows something about it and puts me in the right
> direction so I know where to begin and what to look for.
>
> I forgot one thing. I use ad-hoc wifi network between my device and
> laptop not a Ethernet interface and also I assigned static IP
> addresses but I don't think that would matter since ping is working
> just fine. So I think I can blame Samba for this problem.
>
> If you need further information just tell me.
> Thanks.
OK, in which case, I am telling you to post your smb.conf :-D

Rowland

On Fri, 2015-01-02 at 18:59 +0330, Mostafa.Y wrote:
> Hi guys. Hope you're having great days.
> 
> I have cross compiled Samba 3.6.1 for my embedded linux device. It was
> very tough considering I couldn't find a tutorial or something that
> helps me. Not even on Samba site and its documentation.
> Anyway I managed to compile it and I put compiled files into
> /usr/local directory in the device like I was supposed to and modified
> smb.conf and put it in the right place. Finally I put smbd and nmbd as
> daemon in start-up.
> Well the problem is that when I try to connect to it using a windows
> laptop sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't and windows
> says that it couldn't access that network and it's not accessible
even
> though that I can still ping my device through laptop or ping my
> laptop through the device. Although in the terminal of the device I
> can see that Samba says something like this every time windows tries
> to access:
> 
> malformed request: "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1"
> 
> But like I said there are times that it works and I can see my shared
> directory even though that Samba reports above message.
That message is from your webserver, which doesn't like the windows
client trying to use webdav to it.  (Samba doesn't write a message like
that, and never sees HTTP traffic). 

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

Thank you Andrew
But the thing is that this is a pretty small and minimum Embedded
Linux system. I mean it doesn't have a webserver or things like
that.(or maybe it does have one. I'm not sure! How can I check this
out?)

Anyway I still have the problem. Samba is working a couple of times
and doesn't work for most of the times. By not working I mean that
when I enter the IP address of the board in windows run program (e.g.
\\192.168.1.230) and hit enter, after a time user & password window
shows up and when I enter user and pass (which I created by smbpasswd)
after a long time straggling windows states that the desired network
is no longer available. I'm pretty much sure that everything's fine
since I put Samba files right where they are supposed to be. And there
are couple of times that it's working. So I don't know where to look
out.