[MAC Lion] smbclient "Open AndX Request->STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED"

[George K Colley]

On Jul 31, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 09:15:54PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>> That should work.
>> 
>> ...but if smbclient negotiates "NT LM 0.12", receives CAP_NT_SMBS from the
>> server, and sends CAP_NT_SMBS back to the server, then it should always use
>> NT_CREATE&X, not OPEN&X.
> 
> I'd rather go with try-and-error method. We might put down
> in the client structure that open&x is not supported, but
> relying on capability bits is a bad idea IMO. Too many
> broken or deliberately crippled CIFS servers out there.
I have never ran into a server that didn't work in the way that Chris says above. But I will leave the decision on how the smbclient should work up to the Samba Team. 

George
> 
> Volker
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