On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Some update to the mail below: if I understand correctly, there are two > different problems showing up: > 1) mount.cifs and the Time Capsule (I have no idea on which front the > problem is) don't seem to be able to handshake correctly if the share > name contains whitespaces. I didn't notice at first glance, but then found > some "no such share" errors in dmesg - not reported as output of the > command. Then I tried to change the share name (on the Time Capsule, > obviously) to a single word and reconnect, and it worked (almost, keep > reading). > 2) on some particular smb commands - please bear with me if what I say > is somewhat imprecise - the Time Capsule sends back packets badly > formatted (or that mount.cifs thinks are badly formatted). This happens, > in particular: > - for some packets that report an error, such as the "no such share" > - for some packets during the unmount > > This is the reason why - as far as I can conjecture - though the > handshaking failed because the name of the share could not be resolved, > I didn't get a message about that: in the communication where the Time > Capsule said "hey, I don't have that share!", some packet was reported > as incorrect and dropped. > > Notice that now it does mount immediately, but when I unmount it takes > almost a minute, and in dmesg I get: > > [341279.777815] Bad SMB: : dump of 48 bytes of data at 0xcc482e00 > [341279.777836] 00000027 424d53ff 00000074 00018800 ' . . . � S M B > t . . . . . . . > [341279.777855] 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 21180000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ! > [341279.777873] 00960000 0000ff03 0f000000 6401a8c0 . . . . . > � . . . . . . � � . d > > Googling, I found a very similar problem: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=191112 > , in which case it was said to the reporter "the server is buggy, go > tell to the producer". Now, before trying, probably in vain, to talk > with some Apple guy, I'd like to know the opinion of someone slightly > more expert than me (I have used smb/cifs 5-6 times in all my life), > also because my "conjecture" doesn't explain everything... in > particular it's a mistery for me the fact that one of the two sites I > linked in the former email claimed to have mounted successfully a Time > Capsule with a share name containing whitespaces. I'll try to contact > the writer of that page (notice that before trying changing the share name, I > had > tried changing the Time Capsule firmware, installing all the 3 available > versions with no luck, so the difference isn't there). > > In the meanwhile, any hint? I anyone connecting to a Time Capsule without > problems?
We have an Apple Samba Team member, James Peach. James, any ideas on what is going wrong here ? Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
