Using Samba 3.x to access Novell NetWare servers

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Ravi Natarajan wrote:
> The Novell NW servers were running CIFS service when we tested it. When
> we tested samba 3.0.10b client with Novell NW 5.1 CIFS server, we
> noticed that the FIND_FIRST2 Data segment of the Trans2 Response was
> corrupted - some additional bits were added to the response data that
> corrupted the file names.

Ah.  Okay.

So if it's the data segment of the response that's corrupted, then it'd be
the server that is sending the bad data, yes?

You would have to contact them about the fix for that problem, and they
would probably tell you to upgrade your copy of their product.  The only
other option (assuming the data itself is correct in the packet) is to
modify the Samba code to deal with the data corruption if/when it is detected.

It'd be interesting to see the packet captures.

Chris -)-----

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