[linux-cifs-client] CIFS and Windows 2003 Server shares

[Shirish Pargaonkar]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Leonardo Chiquitto
<leonardo.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm doing some tests with CIFS client 1.54, trying to discover what
> changed with Windows 2003 server that is resulting in a different
> behavior from previous Windows versions. In the end, the goal is
> to understand whether this is something we can workaround / avoid
> on the client side.
>
> The test:
> - the same share is mounted twice with different user names
> - the server is not a domain controller or member server
> - the server doesn't "know" the users
> - "Everyone" and "Guest" have full permissions in the share
>
> The following commands were used:
>
> # mount -t cifs //192.168.8.1/Shared /mnt/a -o
>  noacl,noperm,user=john,dir_mode=0700,domain=DOMAIN,rw
> # mount -t cifs //192.168.8.1/Shared /mnt/b -o
>  noacl,noperm,user=jeff,dir_mode=0700,domain=DOMAIN,rw
>
> Results with Windows 2000 Server:
>
> - Both mount points are accessible in the client:
>
> client:/mnt # ls -la
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Dec  9 19:14 .
> drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 4096 Dec 15 11:40 ..
> drwx------  1 root root    0 Dec 15  2008 a
> drwx------  1 root root    0 Dec 15  2008 b
>
> - "net session" output from server:
>
> Computer               User name            Client Type       Opens Idle time
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> \\192.168.8.1          JOHN                 Linux version 2.6     0 00:01:40
> \\192.168.8.1          JEFF                 Linux version 2.6     0 00:01:40
>
> * We can see that Windows 2000 Server keeps the user name provided
> by the client.
>
> Results with Windows 2003 Server:
>
> - Just the mount point mounted last is accessible:
>
> client:/mnt # ls -la
> ls: cannot access a: Permission denied
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Dec  9 19:14 .
> drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 4096 Dec 15 11:40 ..
> d?????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? a
> drwx------  1 root root    0 Dec 15  2008 b
>
> - "net session" output from the server:
>
> Computer               User name            Client Type       Opens Idle time
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 192.168.8.1          GUEST                Linux version 2.6     0 000012
>
> * We can see that just one session remains and the user name was mapped to
> GUEST.
>
> I suppose this is expected, but I really would like to understand what is
> the underlying cause.
>
> Thanks!
> Leonardo
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Windows 2003 server does not allow Windows client GUEST logins with
more than one user names

C:\>net use y: \\cifstest1\public /USER:abc
The command completed successfully.


C:\>net use
New connections will be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK           Y:        \\cifstest1\public
                                                 Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.


C:\>net use z: \\cifstest1\public /USER:def
System error 1219 has occurred.

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more
 than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the
 server or shared resource and try again..