Linux -> Appleshare IP 6.2 failure using smbclient

[Marty Connor]

Greetings,

I am trying to speak smb from my Redhat Linux box using Samba 2.0.5a to 
an Appleshare IP 6.2 server using smbclient. I know SMB is working, 
because I can communicate from Win98 workstations, and from Macintoshes 
using DAVE 2.1 from Thursby Systems.

Has anyone been able to use smbclient on Redhat 6.0 with Samba 2.0.5a to 
be able to talk to an Appleshare IP 6.2 server?

I have to believe that this would be a very desirable thing for many 
people to do, and after debugging this problem for days, I think without 
Appleshare IP source, I can't go any farther. Does anyone know how to get 
in touch with the Appleshare IP developers? I would think they would be 
interested in making this work too and I'm willing to help debug this.

It looks like there is a failure in the very early part of the protocol 
initialization. It seems as though the Appleshare server sent a null 
response, and confused smbclient. 

Here's an example session with some debugging.

Any help or magic would be appreciated. 

Thanks in advance,

Marty Connor

--------- begin example -----------

# smbclient -L 192.168.2.6 -d 8
Added interface ip=192.168.2.8 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Client started (version 2.0.5a).
Connecting to 192.168.2.6 at port 139
write_socket(5,76)
write_socket(5,76) wrote 76
Sent session request
size=0
smb_com=0x0
smb_rcls=0
smb_reh=0
smb_err=0
smb_flg=0
smb_flg2=0
smb_tid=0
smb_pid=0
smb_uid=0
smb_mid=0
smt_wct=0
smb_bcc=0
 session request ok
write_socket(5,168)
write_socket(5,168) wrote 168
size=0
smb_com=0x0
smb_rcls=0
smb_reh=0
smb_err=0
smb_flg=0
smb_flg2=0
smb_tid=0
smb_pid=0
smb_uid=0
smb_mid=0
smt_wct=0
smb_bcc=0
protocol negotiation failed

--------- end example -----------


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