differences between samba 2 and 3 smb-client?

[Neil Loffhagen]

Much appreciated.  Will see if I can persuade the windows guys to make
the change.

Thanks again,

Neil.

On 12/07/07, Conrad Lawes <pxeboot at gmail.com> wrote:
> See
> http://www.argontechnology.com/forum/ShowPost.aspx?ThreadId=80
>
>
>
> On 7/11/07, Neil Loffhagen <neilloffhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Conrad,
> >
> > Apprecaite the reply.  I've tried both  -t smbfs and the cifs and only the
> -t smbfs works with the old windows 2000 servers.  But they both still fail
> with the windows 2003 servers, so now I've got to persuade the windows guys
> to relax the security on their boxes which I don't think they will be happy
> about.  Do you know by chance which security policy is needed to be relaxed,
> as if I just go and ask a general question about relaxing security not sure
> if I'll get much favours from them :)
> >
> > Thanks again for pointing on the right track.
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/07/07, Conrad Lawes <pxeboot at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Neil,  you're looking at the wrong side of the spectrum.   The problem
> you're seeing is not so much with Samba client version as it is with shares
> you're trying to access.
> > >
> > > Out of the box, Windows 2003 is a lot more secure than its predecessor,
> Windows 2000.  By default, Windows 2003 does not support NTLM-based
> authentication scheme while Windows 2000 does.  As  a result, "legacy"
> clients, Linux included,  will fail to authenticate with Windows 2003
> systems.  Luckily, you can relax some of the security policies of Win2k3 to
> accommodate these clients.
> > >
> > > Further more, smbmount has been replaced with "mount -t smbfs" which in
> turn as been replaced with "mount -t cifs"
> > >
> > > So I believe you should see better results using:
> > >
> > > # mount -t smbfs -o username=<username>  //<win2k3server/sharename
> /mountpoint
> > >
> > > OR better still:
> > >
> > >
> > > # mount -t cifs -o username=<username>  //<win2k3server/sharename
> /mountpoint
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/10/07, Neil Loffhagen <neilloffhagen at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > We have an old Linux box running Redhat 7.2 that make connections to
> shares on windows 2000 and 2003 servers.  All is working fine here.  It is
> running samba-client-2.2.1a-4.
> > > >
> > > > I have been tasked to replace this server with updated hardware etc.
> I have a Linux box that is now running RHEL 4 with samba-client-3.0.10-1 3
> installed.  For some reason this new server will only connect to the shares
> on the windows 2000 server but gives permission errors when trying to
> connect to the shares on the windows 2003 servers.  As we are using the same
> user credentials I'm wondering what the difference is between Sambas 2 and 3
> that will not now connect to windows 2003 boxes whereas it will to windows
> 2000 boxes?  Are there any extra parameters that need to be used?
> > > >
> > > > Hoping someone can please shed some light on this?
> > > >
> > > > The command we are using is:
> > > >
> > > > /usr/bin/smbmount  server_name/c$  /mnt/serv_check  -o
> username=userid, password=password, uid=500,gid=500
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Neil.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Conrad Lawes
> > > PXE Guru
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Conrad Lawes
> PXE Guru