[Samba] smbclient oddness

[Andrew Bartlett]

Are there any logs on the client or server at a higher log level?

Andrew Bartlett

On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 12:39 +1200, Grant Petersen via samba wrote:
> I forgot to mention that using the smbclient option 
> 
> -A /etc/cred/authfile 
> 
> behaves the same way as attempting to manually enter the password on
> the command line; failing in 4.12.2 and working in 4.11.0
> 
> Thanks, Grant.
> 
> On Wed, 2020-05-20 at 12:00 +1200, Grant Petersen wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I have had this apparently inconsistent behavior in smbclinet
> > since, around 4.11.(6?). 4.11.0 seems fine. 
> > I am on fedora 31 so I have just been keeping smbclient at 4.11.0
> > but
> > that is not an option in stock fedora 32 which I would like to use
> > now.
> > My main problem with it is that it seems to be stopping automount
> > working on samba shares of Fed32 clients.
> > 
> > Any suggestions welcome...
> > 
> > 
> > This works:
> > 
> > [grant.petersen at orgonon ~]$ smbclient -L gnabregib  -U
> > Enter GENERICPRODUCTS\grant.petersen's password: 
> > 
> >         Sharename       Type      Comment
> >         ---------       ----      -------
> >         tmp             Disk      Temporary file space
> >         media           Disk      Media server file space
> >         apps            Disk      
> >         backups         Disk      
> >         www             Disk      
> >         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Genericproducts
> > samba
> > server)
> > SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available
> > 
> > 
> > This should work exactly the same? The password prompt seems
> > exactly
> > the same.
> > 
> > [grant.petersen at orgonon ~]$ smbclient -L gnabregib  -
> > Ugrant.petersen
> > Enter GENERICPRODUCTS\grant.petersen's password: 
> > session setup failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED
> > 
> > but times out after about 1 minute to give the above error.
> > 
> > Confirming account name and version
> > 
> > [grant.petersen at orgonon ~]$ whoami
> > grant.petersen
> > [grant.petersen at orgonon ~]$ smbclient -V
> > Version 4.12.2
> > 
> > Interestingly using the ip address of the server instead of the
> > host
> > name and providing the user name on the command line works.
> > 
> > grant.petersen at orgonon ~]$ smbclient -L 192.168.XXX.YYY  -
> > Ugrant.petersen
> > Enter GENERICPRODUCTS\grant.petersen's password: 
> > 
> >         Sharename       Type      Comment
> >         ---------       ----      -------
> >         tmp             Disk      Temporary file space
> >         media           Disk      Media server file space
> >         apps            Disk      
> >         backups         Disk      
> >         www             Disk      
> >         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Genericproducts
> > samba
> > server)
> > SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available
> > 
> > 
> > Server :
> > [grant.petersen at gnabregib ~]$ smbd -V
> > Version 4.12.2
> > grant.petersen at gnabregib ~]$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
> > [global]
> >         workgroup = genericproducts
> >         server string = Genericproducts samba server
> >         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> >         max log size = 2000
> >         log level = 1 
> >         server role = standalone
> >         security = user
> >         guest ok = yes
> >         guest account = xxxxxxxxx
> >         create mask = 0664
> >         directory mask = 0775
> >         force create mode = 0664
> >         force directory mode = 0775
> >         client min protocol = smb2_02
> >         server min protocol = smb2_02
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Grant Petersen
> Email:  grant.petersen at genericproducts.net
> 
> 
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Andrew Bartlett                       https://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  https://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          
https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba