Fw: bugs?

[Elrond]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:07:40AM +1000, Pierre PETIT wrote:
> 
> hello!
> I tried to compile and install a Samba TNG-alpha version 2.5.3 on linux 2.2.16 (Slakware 7.1)
> I got this message after an smbclient -L localhost and after entering th password : "string overflow by 10
> in safe_strcpy" and then I had to kill the session on another console.
> here is the end of the log.localhost file 
> " authorise_login: TODO. split function, it's 6 levels!
> socket connect to /usr/local/samba/var/locks/.msrpc/srvsvc failed
> ncalrpc_l_establish_connection: failed srvsvc)
> ncalrpc_l_use_add: connection failed
> SMB LM/NT Password did not match!
> authorise_login: TODO. split function, it's 6 levels!
> socket connect to /usr/local/samba/var/locks/.msrpc/srvsvc failed
> ncalrpc_l_establish_connection: failed srvsvc)
> ncalrpc_l_use_add: connection failed"
>  
> Is there anything I can do ?
[...]

First check Samba TNG 2.6, it was released yesterday. 2.5.3
is known to have a bunch of bugs.

It looks like you didn't start srvsvcd, which is needed for
"smbclient -L".

You should also try "smbclient -L localhost -U %".


    Elrond