[Samba] Problem getting share list from NetApp

[Peter Gordon]

Using telnet/rsh/ssh is not an option for us. We need to understand why
the rpc protocol with NetApp does not work, and if possible, try to fix
it.

Peter

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:46 -0600, Mike Partyka wrote:
> Do you have access to the Filer console via telnet/rsh/ssh? That is
> the easiest method i can think of off the top of my head, then you
> just issue the command "cifs shares", and you'll get a list of the
> CIFS shares on the storage applicance. 
> 
> On 1/16/06, Peter Gordon <peter at pg-consultants.com> wrote:
>         We defined a share, sales_cifs_test, on our NetApp server.
>         Note that the
>         length ofour the name is longer than 13 characters.
>         
>         We can see the share with Microsoft Explorer.
>         
>         We can mount the share from Linux using smbmount. 
>         
>         What we want to do is to get a list of shares from NetApp. The
>         tools
>         that can do this are the samba programs smbclient and net.
>         
>           Smbclient will not show names longer than 13 characters.
>         
>           The following command gives a share list, but again, does
>         not include 
>         names longer than 13 characters.
>         
>           net  net -W YOURDOMAIN --user='user%password' -w YOURDOMANIN
>         -S
>         NETAPP_SERVER_IP rap share
>         
>         The command
>         net  net -W YOURDOMAIN --user='user%password' -w YOURDOMANIN -
>         S 
>         NETAPP_SERVER_IP rpc share
>         
>         is the samba command that gives a list of shares, even if they
>         have
>         long names. The problem is that we can't get it to access
>         NetApp
>         successfully.
>         
>         We have searched both the Netapp site and the Samba site and
>         can't find 
>         anything that is relevant.
>         
>         We would really appreciate an answer as to why the command is
>         failing.
>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Peter
>         
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