[Samba] things that break with unix extensions = yes, samba 4.1.5 and osx 10.9 clients?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Mar 13 15:47:09 MDT 2014


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 05:38:02PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > Did you get an offer of source code with the device ?
> >
> > If not, then it's either not Samba or in license
> > violation.
> 
> No, I didn't. I may be mistaken that it's smbclient from Samba - was
> just a guess. It might just be the code in the Linux kernel. I know
> that it only tries to negotiate smb 1 and that it doesn't work at all
> with Windows 8(+), so I'm guessing (again) that if it's not
> proprietary smb code that it's older GPLv2 code and possibly supplied
> via the Mediatek chipset. The reason I doubt it's any in-house Oppo
> implementation is because they seemed to not really understand why it
> wasn't working with Windows 8, claiming that it was because they
> didn't do smb 2, when Windows 8 speaks smb 1 just fine (although some
> early smb clients have issues with the Windows 8 "dialect").
> 
> Their is a page on their wiki that mentions open source software used
> in a previous model:
> http://wiki.oppodigital.com/index.php?title=Open_Source_Software_Related_to_BDP-95/95
> 
> But I haven't found anything relating to the current model, and my
> guess is that it is using much open-source code.

Looking at that it looks like the Linux kernel client.


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