[linux-cifs-client] Re: CIFS not mounting Windows Shares (Adnan)

Adnan adnano at charter.net
Wed Mar 24 00:07:57 GMT 2004


Question of curosity.......

Does CIFS works with NETBIOS only??


"Adnan" <adnano at charter.net> wrote in message
news:c3nv0u$o8q$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> Steve, hopefully this was the answer you were looking from me.  If not,
> please let me know what more information I can provide.
>
> Again, thanks in advance
>
> Adnan
>
> "Adnan" <adnano at charter.net> wrote in message
> news:000401c4103a$ca4a6fc0$f901a8c0 at AdnanLaptop...
> >
> > Thanks Steve for the response.....
> >
> > I am trying to Connect to Windows 2000 Server, XP (home and
> > Professional) and Windows 2003 Server. I checked the Local Security
> > Settings of Windows XP Professional and it is not restricting any
> > Workstations.  Also to verify that I connect to this XP machine.  I
> > mounted a share of this machine using
> > Smbclient (samba 3.0.2rc2) to my Linux machine (Mandrake 9.0).
> > Moreover, I can also connect to this share using other Windows Machines
> > from My Network Places.
> >
> > I have also run,
> >
> > Smbclient -L "192.168.1.35" -N and I see the list of machines that are
> > registered to that Workgroup/Domain.
> >
> > Hope this additional information helps.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Adnan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve French [mailto:smfltc at us.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:29 AM
> > To: linux-cifs-client at lists.samba.org
> > Cc: adnano at charter.net
> > Subject: CIFS not mounting Windows Shares (Adnan)
> >
> > <<<<<<< Snip Original Message >>>>>>>
> >
> > The symptoms shown by your debug log entries match what happens when the
> > cifs client attempts to mount older servers to Windows9x or Windows NT
> > (prior to Windows 2000). I have not seen this happen to Windows 2000 or
> > later but perhaps the servers will do if the list of allowed
> > workstations is restricted through the Windows admin gui since without
> > the rfc1001 session initialize a clients can not identify their
> > (netbios) workstation name.   Older operating systems (such as NT4)
> > which do not support "native TCP" require that the first frame sent be
> > RFC1001 ("Netbios over TCP") netbios session initialize (before the SMB
> > negotiate protocol request) which the cifs client does not sent.  This
> > would not be too hard to add though.
> >
> > Other possible less likely reasons could be hitting a tcp session.  Let
> > me know if you are restricting the hostnames/workstation names that can
> > connect to your system since the symptom indicates that the server is
> > taking down the tcp session before responding even to the first SMB
> > request.





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