When is network browsing supported again?

Rowland Penny repenny241155 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 13:02:22 MDT 2013


On 22/10/13 19:45, Stef Bon wrote:
> Well adding the browselist and browseable options enabled did not change a
> thing. Look:
>
> :>smbclient4 -N -L 192.168.1.2
>
>          Sharename       Type       Comment
>          ---------       ----       -------
>          IPC$            IPC        IPC Service (ubuntuserver server (Samba,
> Ubuntu))
>          backup          Disk       Backup share.
>          public          Disk       Publieke share.
>          sbon            Disk       Prive share sbon.
>          print$          Disk       Printer Drivers
> REWRITE: list servers not implemented
>
> so still the servers are not listed.
>
> Version client tool:
>
> smbclient4 -V
> Version 4.2.0pre1-GIT-9423d5a
>
> while the version three:
>
> smbclient -N -L 192.168.1.2
> Domain=[BONONLINE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.9]
>
>          Sharename       Type      Comment
>          ---------       ----      -------
>          IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (ubuntuserver server (Samba,
> Ubuntu))
>          backup          Disk      Backup share.
>          public          Disk      Publieke share.
>          sbon            Disk      Prive share sbon.
>          print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
> Domain=[BONONLINE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.9]
>
>          Server               Comment
>          ---------            -------
>          UBUNTUSERVER         ubuntuserver server (Samba, Ubuntu)
>
>          Workgroup            Master
>          ---------            -------
>          BONONLINE            UBUNTUSERVER
>
> So the server list is not there using a git version.
> What causes this? Is it a auth. problem?
>
> Stef
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2013/10/22 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
>
>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 01:47:33PM +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
>>> See for example here:
>>>
>>> http://edoceo.com/howto/samba4
>>>
>>> "
>>> No More Network Browsing
>>> In Windows based AD you can still browse a network, Samba3 had this but
>>> Samba4 does not. So, you will not see your domain, or browse machines in
>>> the domain."
>>>
>>> This not right?
>> This seems to be talking about the client side of browsing.
>>
>> The statements in that howto are based on a very old pre-release
>> version of Samba 4 (alpha11) which shipped a rewrite of smbclient. The
>> 4.0.0 release ships with the original smbclient binary (same as the
>> 3.x series), and supports browsing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jelmer
>>
You are using the wrong smbclient, forget smbclient4

Rowland



More information about the samba-technical mailing list