Fw: Windows 2000 breaks the samba client

[Jason Perlow]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Allison" <jeremy at valinux.com>
To: "Jason Perlow" <perlow at hotmail.com>; <sjvn at zd.com>; <mfoley at zd.com>;
<jeremy at valinux.com>; <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Windows 2000 breaks the samba client


> Ok, I now have Win2k server installed with active
> directory running.

Welcome to hell.

>
> I am using 2.0.7pre1 (snapshot I released) and have
> no problems connecting to the Win2k server using smbclient
> and seeing all files.

Where do I get that snapshot?

>
> This means the basic connectivity is fine between Samba
> smbclient and Win2k. I will now try and test smbfs (which
> I *hate*, so bear with me :-).

A ha!

>
> There is a problem in that smbclient -L doesn't give a
> share list from the machine (although it does give a
> workgroup/master browser list, strange...) so I'll look
> into that also.

See, and that's the thing. All the front ends (at least Gnomba and
LinNeighborhood do) appear to use smbclient -L to retrieve the share list so
you can do a graphical browse. Without the share listing, the GUI's cant
map.

Now if smbmount -doesnt- work....

>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy Allison,
> Samba Team.
>
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