Re: has anyone successfully accessed a windows share with samba > 3.0.2

[Alois Treindl <alois astro ch>]

John Newbigin wrote:

> smbmount comes with samba but really has nothing to do with samba. 

> I have tested smaba 3.0.7-1.3E.1 and kernel 2.4.21-20.0.1ELsmp mounting 
> and accessing a share from a Windows 2003 machine which worked fine:

Thanks.
I have already submitted tcpdump logs of both working and failing 
connections to redhat support. They take a lot of time with the problem, 
it is now two weeks since I started the case.

Everybody is telling me: has nothing to do with samba, should work.

fact is:
I have both sets of samba*rpms here, i.e. 3.0.2 and 3.0.7 from RHEL.

With rpm -Uvh samba*3.0.7*rpm I can install the 307 version
-> my smbmounts fail, i.e. the mount command itself works
but each access fails with 'permission denied'

with rpm -Uvh --oldpackage samba*3.0.2*rpm
I can switch to the 302 version.

Now everything works; I can switch back and forth quickly between the 
two versions.

Nothing is changed in samba.conf, nothing is changed in user accounts 
both on Linux and on Windows.

swapping the samba versions does it.

How can one say: this has nothing to do with samba?
For me, samba is what is installed via the samba rpms. The problem
has obviously to do with it.

Alois