Fw: Windows 2000 breaks the samba client

[Jeremy Allison]

Tom Zerucha wrote:
> 
> I reported this twice, and you can find info in the archives going back
> to december describing this exact problem.  I even included the debug
> output.
> 
> It does connect if I already know a share but it doesn't list shares.
> 
> They've must of known about it for a long time, but no one who appears
> to develop for samba has even acknowledged any of the messages or asked
> for more information or simply said we don't give a rat's rear about W2K
> compatability, which would be more courteous.

Yes we do care. I'm working on it for 2.0.7. More when I
know more. It does appear to be broken for 2.0.6, but then
again 2.0.6 shipped *way* before Win2k, so I'm not accepting
responsibility :-).

> This is suspicious because Microsoft had to know that samba was out
> there when it created the W2K stack, so probably intentionally mutated
> it in some way to make it not work right.  But they did the same with
> windows when DRDOS threatened them.

Nah - never assign to malice what can be adaquately explained
by incompetence :-).

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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