[jcifs] newbie problems

[Mark Shifman]

Michael B Allen wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:48:26 -0400
>Mark Shifman <mark.shifman at yale.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>>Add some System.out.printlns to SmbTransport.java:228 to print all of the arguments passed to the Socket constructor. 
>>> 
>>>      
>>>
>>        System.out.println("address " +  address.getHostAddress() + " 
>>port " + port + " localAddr " + localAddr+" local port " + localPort);
>>                socket = new Socket( address.getHostAddress(), port, 
>>localAddr, localPort );
>>...
>>outputs:
>>address 172.23.78.119 port 445 localAddr moussaka/127.0.0.1 local port 0
>>
>>So the constructor doesn't like what it is given as localAddr.   If I 
>>put my real ip adress in ,  the socket is created. 
>>Either I have my machine configured strangely (it seems to work with 
>>everything else) or jcifs is picking up my local address incorrectly
>>or (the most likely) I don't really understand what is going on.
>>mas
>>    
>>
>
>You don't have a loopback adapter. I've seen this before on
>Windows machines. Either you need to setup loopback or use the
>jcifs.smb.client.laddr property to set the address of the interface
>to use.
>
>  
>
When I set jcifs.Config.setProperty( "jcifs.smb.client.laddr", 
"myipaddress" );
It finally worked. 

I am running under linx with loopback defined in a standard fashion from 
ifconfig:
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:104 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5676 (5.5 Kb)  TX bytes:5676 (5.5 Kb)

>We could put a clause in the code like:
>
>  if (localAddr == InetAddress.getLocalHost()) {
>      socket = new Socket( address.getHostAddress(), port );
>  } else {
>      socket = new Socket( address.getHostAddress(), port, localAddr, localPort );
>  }
>
>If you leave out the localAddr and localPort properties alltogether does
>it work ok?
>  
>
Yes!

By the way, someone left a
System.out.print(" " + name );
in SmbFile.java (at least in the tgz I downloaded) line 1705.

Thanks for your help
mas

>Mike
>
>  
>


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