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parintachin

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Registered: 2009-05-25

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[SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

with smbclient 3.4.3-2 smbnetfs and dolphin find my workgroup but no host or shares .
interestingly dolphin promts me for a username password for my workgroup ,not a specific host but for the workgroup itself , but that doesn't help anything.
in dolphin smb://hostname works

parintachin

Last edited by parintachin (2009-11-23 12:04:37)

InsektO

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Registered: 2008-07-12

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

I am having this same issue when trying to access network hosts from nautilus.

alphazo

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Registered: 2009-10-20

Posts: 167

Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

Same thing here. I see the top folders but they are empty.

Few weeks ago when I installed Arch I also had to do the following extra steps to get smbnetfs running:
#chown nobody:nobody /mnt/smbnet
#chown nobody:nobody /etc/smbnetfs
#chmod 600 /etc/smbnetfs/.smb/smbnetfs.conf

Also I did notice that having smbnetfs in rc.conf would start the daemon but would never show any share. I had to manually restart the daemon in order to see my network shares.

I hope that someone will find a way to fix it. I never tried the fusesmb option as it appears to be marked as broken in the wiki.
Alphazo

ancide

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Registered: 2009-07-09

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

with smbclient 3.4.3-2 smbnetfs and dolphin find my workgroup but no host or shares .
interestingly dolphin promts me for a username password for my workgroup ,not a specific host but for the workgroup itself , but that doesn't help anything.
in dolphin smb://hostname works
parintachin

I have the same problem and I have checked so that the latest version of samba on the server have the passwords generated to the new passwd file. And I have checked with another computer with windows 7 and it works fine.

I read in another thread that you could try to downgrade to the version before 3.4.3 and this problem will be solved.

jib2

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From: Paris, France

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

I may be wrong but i think samba new version changed the way samba users and passwords are stored.
Old smbusers and smbpasswd files are no longer used. Instead, infos are stored in passdb.tdb and secrets.tdb
So you have to register again samba users with
smbpasswd -a username

From the samba-3.4.0 release notes:
!!! ATTENTION !!!
The default passdb backend has been changed to 'tdbsam'! That breaks existing
setups using the 'smbpasswd' backend without explicit declaration! Please use
'passdb backend = smbpasswd' if you would like to stick to the 'smbpasswd'
backend or convert your smbpasswd entries using e.g. 'pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e
tdbsam'.

ninian

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

Not quite sure when this happened, but after I did a pacman -Syu today sometime, my logs grew to silly sizes with these types of entries:

Nov 13 22:45:27 hostname nmbd[3269]: [2009/11/13 22:45:27,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:385(tdb_log)
Nov 13 22:45:27 hostname nmbd[3269]:   tdb(/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_oob len 980837756 beyond eof at 12288

Related to the Samba problems described above, I wonder?
PS: I use 'security = share' in my smb.conf

Added later: Killing that cache file after stopping the samba daemon seemed to do the trick:

# rm /var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb

Last edited by ninian (2009-11-15 12:14:33)

ancide

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Registered: 2009-07-09

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

I may be wrong but i think samba new version changed the way samba users and passwords are stored.
Old smbusers and smbpasswd files are no longer used. Instead, infos are stored in passdb.tdb and secrets.tdb
So you have to register again samba users with
smbpasswd -a username

You are right. Dispite readding users the problem still remains with smbclient, unfortunately

ancide

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Registered: 2009-07-09

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

Not quite sure when this happened, but after I did a pacman -Syu today sometime, my logs grew to silly sizes with these types of entries:

Nov 13 22:45:27 hostname nmbd[3269]: [2009/11/13 22:45:27,  0] lib/util_tdb.c:385(tdb_log)
Nov 13 22:45:27 hostname nmbd[3269]:   tdb(/var/cache/samba/gencache.tdb): tdb_oob len 980837756 beyond eof at 12288

Related to the Samba problems described above, I wonder?
PS: I use 'security = share' in my smb.conf

I reckon it probably has something to do with the new way samba stores passwords and users.

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

We seem to have two different threads here. The OP was about smbclient and smbnetfs, of which I'm having the same problem. The other stuff is about full blown samba. Let's keep this thread to the OP and open another (if necessary) for the samba stuff.

ancide

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

We seem to have two different threads here. The OP was about smbclient and smbnetfs, of which I'm having the same problem. The other stuff is about full blown samba. Let's keep this thread to the OP and open another (if necessary) for the samba stuff.

I agree.

There are a thread about the new samba update people can start with if they have issues with samba. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84416

ninian

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

There are a thread about the new samba update people can start with if they have issues with samba. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84416

Thanks for pointing out that thread.

parintachin

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

has somebody found a solution ?

ps. the same problem hit debian sid

ancide

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Registered: 2009-07-09

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

has somebody found a solution ?

ps. the same problem hit debian sid

No, not really. Been searching but not really found a solution.

I guess the only thing we can do is to revert to the version before 3.4.3-2 and wait until they patch the new
version.

parintachin

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Re: [SOLVED] problem with smbclient 3.4.3-2

solved with smbclient 3.4.3-3