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

[George K Colley]

On Feb 3, 2012, at 11:49 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 04:57:21PM -0600, Darrik Spaude wrote:
>> Does anyone have a suggestion for how to get this to work
>> from Samba 3.0 (embedded system, so upgrading to 3.6 may
>> not be possible)?
>> 
>> For example, from the embedded system trying to connect to
>> a share ("Shared") on Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion):
>> 
>> smbmount //10.0.0.190/Shared /smbfs/10.0.0.190_Shared -o
>> 'guest,rw,fmask=777,dmask=777'
>> 
>> fails with "SMB connection failed."
>> 
>> The same smbmount string connecting to Snow Leopard works
>> just fine (same sharing config as Lion). Connecting from
>> Snow Leopard to Lion via the following worked fine:
>> 
>> smbclient \\\\10.0.0.190\\Shared --user=guest
>> 
>> Is there a smb.conf change I can make for smbmount so that
>> I don't get the STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED negotiation failure?
> 
> No, there is no way with smb.conf. Either use cifs instead
> of smbfs or contact your Apple support to change their SMB
> server to also support the old calls.
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Volker Lendecke
> 

Just a FYI, Apple support will direct you to the following:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4698

You should be using cifs to connect to Lion.

George
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