Has smbclient behavior changed from 2.2.8a to 3.0.0?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:11:09PM -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:46:52AM +0100, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 00:27, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> > > Um...
> > > 
> > > Note that you're talking to port 445!
> > > 
> > > Port 445 doesn't do NetBIOS.  No NetBIOS names, no NBT.
> > > 
> > > Not sure why your system is talking to port 445, but it's the wrong port 
> > > for the kind of query you are trying to do.
> > > 
> > > Could be a bug in the way smbclient tries to connect to a remote host.
> > 
> > Yes, afaik smbclient now tries 445 first by default.
> 
> I'll have to file a bug report.
> 
> > Probably we should find out a way to tell smbclient to not use 445 when
> > -L switch is issued and instead go directly to port 139.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> It appears that we can still get the list of shares via 445 (that is,
> NetShareEnum still works), but getting the list of workgroups and servers 
> certainly won't.

I think this is already fixed in 3.0.1pre1, we make a fresh connection
to port 139 for this exact purpose.

Andrew Bartlett