SMB/CIFS Woes with Leopard
SMB/CIFS Woes with Leopard
- Subject: SMB/CIFS Woes with Leopard
- From: "Michael Miller" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:13:44 -0800
Hi all, this is my first post to this mailing list so I hope I've come to the right place. My outfit and I are trying to implement a CIFS-type server that Tiger and Leopard clients can connect to. According to one of our developers:
"It looks like Leopard only supports NT LM 0.12 dialect and if I return -1 (server not support this dialect) it will not work. The previous version (Mac OS 10.4) supported many more protocol dialects and Leopard supports only the one (the latest). The problem is not about the dialect. We support this dialect, but problem is that Leopard absolutely requires IPC$ service, which we don't have. Windows, for example, try to open IPC$ and if it's not available then it just not use it."
Can anybody shed some light on whether or not this is true? I find it hard to believe that Leopard all of sudden requires a much more robust SMB server protocol than it did with Tiger. I would think that at least you could make Leopard fall back into Tiger's implementation to make the service work. I mean, if Leopard is this way wouldn't it break a lot of 3rd party servers and embedded devices that use SMB/CIFS for transfers?
-Michael
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