On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 02:45:15PM +1100, Jonathan Schultz wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone help me to track down the source of this problem? I'm > trying to access a file server running on a Belkin modem with an > attached USB drive. Judging my the quality of the firmware on the > device, I'd say there's a good chance of it being buggy. But it > works well enough on a Windows machine, even one running inside > Virtualbox under Linux. I therefore see no reason why it shouldn't > work using a Samba client. > > When I try to connect using smbclient, I can connect OK, and put and > retrieve files. But if I try to browse the share using 'ls' or 'du', > it returns immediately something like 'NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY listing > *' So I can't get a directory listing of the share, which pretty > much makes it useless. > > Interestingly, when I try to connect to it using XBMC running on my > Apple TV, which I assume incorporates samba pretty much off the > shelf, it also returns an error indicating problems allocating > memory. > > I have enough IT skills to build samba from source and try to > reverse engineer and debug it. I'd just like to benefit from the > experience of others before I go down that path.
What we need are comparative network traces from accessing the box via windows and smbclient. See https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Capture_Packets for info how to do that best. Thanks, Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:[email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
