[jcifs] CIFS oddities: Novell/jCIFS/smbclient

[Michael B. Allen]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:52:53 -0600
"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:

> Jim
> 
> I'm doing some testing of jCIFS 0.7.0b11 against a Novell CIFS server and
> I've found a few oddities.  Chief among them is that jCIFS has no problem
> at all getting a good NetShareEnum response from the Novell server, but
> Samba's smbclient does.  The response from the Novell server is filled
> with nul bytes.  The smbclient tool is in wide use, and doesn't seem to
> have a problem (as far as I know) against any other server.  If I get
> time, I will look into this some more.  My guess is that there's a
> subtlety here that is making the two products incompatible.
> 
> Another oddity is that I can use the jCIFS 'List' utility to list the 
> shares, and list the contents of a file or subdirectory, but I cannot list 
> the root of the share:
> 
> $ java List smb://domain\;crh:p%40ssw0rd@server/
>  IPC$ ARCHIVES SHARED USERS
> 4 files in 342ms
> 

The below URLs need a trailing slash.

> $ java List smb://domain\;crh:p%40ssw0rd@server/USERS
> Exception in thread "main" jcifs.smb.SmbException: File not found
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.sendTransaction(SmbTransport.java:630)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbSession.sendTransaction(SmbSession.java:78)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbTree.sendTransaction(SmbTree.java:66)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.sendTransaction(SmbFile.java:443)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.list(SmbFile.java:1129)
>         at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.list(SmbFile.java:1117)
>         at List.main(List.java:31)
> 
> $ java List smb://domain\;crh:p%40ssw0rd@server/USERS/CRH
>  Created_on_MAC foo.txt Novell_NetShareEnum.cap.gz resource.frk
> 4 files in 376ms
> 
> 
> It would be nice to be able to work out these issues, to ensure that the
> Novell CIFS server is compatible with as many clients as possible.  I have 
> some captures.  I just haven't had time to look at them yet.
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 
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