Appleshare IP 6.2 and smbfs

[Andrew Bartlett]

William Mulvihill wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         I'm having trouble connecting to an Appleshare IP 6.2 Mac that is
> doing SMB file sharing from my RedHat Linux 7.2 box.  I've looked and
> looked and looked at many things and many SMB clients.  I've tried
> smbclient, smbmount, Sharity, and even just doing a mount -t smbfs.  All
> of them come back with something of this form:
> Protocol Negotiation Failed
> SMB connection failed.
> 
>         I have tried using samba 2.2.1a, samba 2.2.2.  I have upgraded my
> kernel from 2.4.9 to 2.4.13 in the hopes that some of the smbfs fixes in
> 2.4.11 would help.  None of this has helped.  What is funny is that I
> can use samba to connect to every other Windows shared directory.  Works
> like a charm.  I can mount Windows machine's shared files, but cannot
> connect to this Mac serving Windows files.  Using verbose modes of
> smbclient and such don't yield any useful lines.  And I know my DOMAIN
> is set up correctly.
> 
>         The absolute last thing I haven't tried yet is to upgrade the
> Appleshare IP Mac to 6.3.2.  But to do that, I need to upgrade the
> entire OS from 8.6 to 9.0.4.  While this is doable, it would be nice to
> avoid this.  This is our main file server and I'd like to know if the
> upgrade would definitely fix this.  Has anyone had success using samba
> with Appleshare IP???  Anyone???  I googled the web.  No one seems clear
> on whether this will work.  If I am asking the wrong person about this,
> please let me know who I should direct my questions to.  Thanks.

Unless you are running MacOS X, the only SMB server available for the
Mac is 'Dave', see the links on the download page @ samba.org.

If you want to be an appletalk client, then look at netatalk.sf.net.

Andrew Bartlett

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