Does Samba4 Alpha6 support IPV6?

[David Holder]

Peixing Sun,

Samba 4 alpha 6 does not support IPv6. In order to get it working you
need to patch it.

Regards,
David
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Sun_Peixing at emc.com wrote:
> Hi All:
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> I downloaded and installed Samba4 Alpha6 on my IPV6 compatible Linux
> client. 
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> I tried to use smbclient to connect a share using IPV4 IP, it works.
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> I tried to use smbclient to connect another share using IPV6 IP, it
> failed with BAD_NETWORK_NAME error.
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> I searched on Google for "Samba4" and IPV6,  I think Samba4 doesn't
> support IPV6.
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> Could anybody confirm this for me?
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> Thanks
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> Peixing Sun
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> root at rtptcs44026 kumar]# ./smbclient //18.28.46.26/svr2sh1
> -Uqahex8.ddd.xxx.com/administrator%QA.nasadmin
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> smb: \> quit
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> [root at rtptcs44026 kumar]# ./smbclient
> //2620:0:170:446:0:bad:beef:2/svr2sh1
> -Uqahex8.ddd.xxx.com/administrator%QA.nasadmin
>
> Connection to \\2620:0:170:446:0:bad:beef:2\svr2sh1
> <file:///\\2620:0:170:446:0:bad:beef:2\svr2sh1>  failed -
> NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME
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