Accessing Samba with Pocket PC 2003

[Florian Pressler]

Hello!

Pocket PC 2003 is the MS Windows for PDAs. Have you ever tried to access a 
samba-drive with such a device? While it is possible to access "real" 
Windows servers and shares from other Windows-clients with Pocket PC 2003, 
it is not possible to connect to a samba-server... The error message is as 
follows:

When the PDA is turned on and accesses the LAN, it registers its name (in 
this case NAVI-SYS):

[2004/08/08 11:27:16, 3] 
nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:process_name_registration_request(220)
  process_name_registration_request: Name registration for name NAVI-SYS<00> 
IP 10.10.10.14 on subnet
10.10.10.10

When you try to connect to a share on LINUXSERVER (sambaserver), it looks 
like this (taken from log.10.10.10.14):
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1226)
  open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket.
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/oplock.c:init_oplocks(1257)
  open_oplock ipc: pid = 19641, global_oplock_port = 33143
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 4] lib/time.c:get_serverzone(122)
  Serverzone is -7200
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] lib/access.c:check_access(313)
  check_access: no hostnames in host allow/deny list.
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(324)
  Allowed connection from  (10.10.10.14)
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(890)
  Transaction 0 of length 72
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(105)
  netbios connect: name1=LINUXSERVER     name2=_CERDR575E2A62
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(112)
  netbios connect: local=linuxserver remote=_cerdr575e2a62, name type = 0

Note the name "CERDR..." - the device's name is NAVI-SYS?!

And if you look in log._cerdr575e2a62:
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(890)
  Transaction 1 of length 51
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(685)
  switch message SMBnegprot (pid 19641)
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288)
  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(455)
  Requested protocol [NT LM 0.12]
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_nt1(329)
  using SPNEGO
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/negprot.c:reply_negprot(532)
  Selected protocol NT LM 0.12
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1104)
  timeout_processing: End of file from client (client has disconnected).
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(288)
  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(558)
  Closing connections
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(69)
  Yielding connection to
[2004/08/08 11:27:46, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(601)
  Server exit (normal exit)

The errormessage on the device itself is "Cannot find the file '\\' (or one 
of its components). Make sure the path and file name are correct and all 
required libraries are available.".

Any hints on how to avoid this? Are there plans for samba supporting MS 
PDA-OS? If I can help with any more information, please request it... :)

regards,
Florian

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