Does Samba4 Alpha6 support IPV6?

[Sun_Peixing at emc.com]

Hi David:

 

I am using Samba4 to write client programs to test or SMB2 server.
Samba3.x doesn't support SMB2, so I have to stick to Samba4. 

 

Thanks 

Peixing

 

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From: David Holder [mailto:david.holder at erion.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:35 PM
To: Sun, Peixing
Cc: Samba Technical
Subject: Re: Does Samba4 Alpha6 support IPV6?

 

Peixing,

Hi! The old patch can be found here
http://www.ipv6consultancy.com/ipv6blog/?p=34.

I just quickly updated it for Samba4-alpha7 (see attached). It seems to
work ;-).

This is really a rough hack. All it does it make the Samba4 server
listen on IPv4 and IPv6. Configuration options and command line options
will only accept IPv4 addresses. For example, if you want to use
smbclient with IPv6 addresses then use the Samba 3.2 or Samba 3.3
version of smbclient which is IPv6 enabled.

Samba 4 isn't too far off being IPv6 enabled. The libraries are there
(from Samba 3) and most of the code would be trivial to change. 

I would be very interested to know how you get on. Let me know if you
have any questions.

Regards,
David

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Sun_Peixing at emc.com wrote: 

David:

 

Could you tell me where to download the patch?   I hope the patch is
free and reliable

 

Thanks

 

Peixing

 

________________________________

From: David Holder [mailto:david.holder at erion.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:06 PM
To: Sun, Peixing
Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: Does Samba4 Alpha6 support IPV6?

 

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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Dr David Holder CEng FIET MIEEE
Erion Ltd, Oakleigh, Upper Sutherland Road, Halifax, HX3 8NT
Reception: +44 (0)1422 207000
Direct Dial: +44 (0)131 2026317
Cell: +44 (0) 7768 456831 

Registered in England and Wales. Registered Number 3521142
VAT Number: GB 698 3633 78

 



Sun_Peixing at emc.com wrote: 

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