[Samba] higher ascii characaters in smbusers, success!

[Erik Soderquist]

Since you seem to be good with challenges, would you care to try one?
The short version is that I can't automount a share on a windows server
from samba if the machine name has a hyphen in it or if the password has
a space in it. This is from a message I posted previously but got no
response to:

i seem to be having trouble with certain characters in machine names and
passwords.

specifically, there is a hyphen in on of the server's names. this entry
in the fstab file fails to connect with the following error:

# mount /root/it-blackbox/c\$/
Password: 
Anonymous login successful
18867: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed

the line from fstab is:

//it-blackbox/c$ /root/it-blackbox/c$ smbfs
noauto,credentials=/root/.smbauth 0 0

the .smbauth file contents are:

username = administrator
workgroup = mcstamp

this work correctly for another share on a machine without the hyphen in
the name on the same domain.

the other problem i have is that the password has a space in it, and I
can't seem to get the password to work using quotes or using the
backslash. this forces me to do an interactive mount (yes, i know i have
it set to noauto for interactive. that is because it fails the password
and i have to do it manually anyway. i don't want it to sit and wait for
the password during bootup.) HELP!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: torge husfeldt [mailto:torgehusfeldt at tiscali.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 04:57
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] higher ascii characaters in smbusers, success!


Hi list,

Update: originally i wanted to post a question,
but in writing i thought of things that finally led me
to the solution. This i wanted to share with the community
in case it can help.

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I had no luck searching for it.
I have a working Samba 2.2.5 installation on SuSE8.1.
I have two users on a windows client called
Torge (that's me)
and
Ga&ediaresis;lle (interpreted as HTML special character)
You could also write Ga\"elle (TeX convention),
but fact is: there is a higher ascii character in the name,
that i prefer not to get rid of.
I have users for the same two persons on the server
called:
toh
and:
gab
my smbusers file reads something like this:

toh = torge
gab = gaelle ga?lle

I (toh=torge) can log on impeccably to the server,
while my partner (gab=gaelle) is blocked.
The log says:

[2003/09/29 11:57:18, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(545)
  Couldn't find user 'ga211lle' in passdb.

Where the 211 is written in reverse graphics.
Now my question is: what should i put in the place of the
question mark in my smbusers file?

Thanks in advance,
Torge

P.S.: Answer: with some cat'ing and >>'ing i managed to
put the exact character from the log into the smbusers
and it worked. Note though that just less'ing and copying
into vi with the mouse would not work.

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