Juergen Nickelsen <[email protected]> writes:

> I am at a loss with ZFS SMB sharing. I created a zfs file system
> d0/pvr to be used, via SMB, by the digital video recorder. (This
> already works fine with Samba on a FreeBSD server, which I want to
> replace.)
[etc.]

Found the solution today. In the meantime I had discovered that,
while I could not access the SMB share from the FreeBSD machine
using smbclient, I could well do so from a Mac. Using the same
command line "smbclient //mellum/d0_pvr -U pvr" worked from Mac OS
X, but not from FreeBSD.

More or less idling around, I tried it from the Mac's Finder GUI,
"Connect to Server". The dialog "SMB/CIFS File System
Authentication" had the workgroup name and my account name (in
uppercase) already filled in and asked for a password. I entered the
password and it worked... not! After correcting the account name to
lower case it worked. Lo and behold!

Indeed it was the account name in upper or lower case that made the
difference. Apparently smbclient behaves differently on both
systems, and the one on FreeBSD changes the account name to
uppercase, as well as the system of the video recorder (a Siemens
Gigaset M740AV running Linux inside, BTW).

Knowing that, I made a username alias in uppercase, and now
everything seems to be fine. Phew, that took me weeks to find out!

Regards, Juergen.
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