[olug] new to Samba

[Phil Brutsche]

thelarsons3 at cox.net wrote:
>> are in gnu/linux trying to access the windows share.  what's the 
>> version of windows are you running?  look for hints in relevant 
>> /var/log/ files
> 
> 
> Win2k Server.  Maybe samba 2.0.9 predates Win2k?  I remember reading 
> about some changes in the SMB protocol so I suppose that's possible.

Yes, Samba 2.0 predates Win2k.  Samba 2.0 was released in (I think)
late 1997/early 1998, WAAAY back when Win2k was still refered as NT 5 in
the marketing literature ;)

I vaguely remember having problems with 2.0 talking to Win2k under some
circumstances.  Perhaps I'm not the only one that thinks you should
upgrade to at least 2.2.8a ;)

Some other possibilities:
  * File system ACLs on the directory are keeping you from seeing what
    you want (these are separate from the ACLs on the share)
  * The Win2k server is set to reject older versions of the
    authentication protocol (ie the administrator set it to only allow AD
    authentication, which is basically kerberos, or something along those
    lines)

First thing to do would be to double-check that you can get to 
everything from a Windows machine.  Second thing to do would be to 
upgrade Samba.

>> and capture network traffic with ethereal and 'follow tcp stream' 
>> to see whats going on.  could you clarify a little more?
> 
> I've never used this tool before.

ethereal is a graphical packet sniffer and protocol analyzer.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us