Re: SMB/CIFS Woes with Leopard
Re: SMB/CIFS Woes with Leopard
- Subject: Re: SMB/CIFS Woes with Leopard
- From: Andre-John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:23:10 -0500
On 17-Dec-07, at 20:13 , Michael Miller wrote:
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?
Apple uses a slightly modified version of Samba 3.0, so any general
limitations would be shared. What I can tell you from observation,
rather than any official source, is that the Finder and the findsmb
tool do not always seem to agree on discovered servers. That is in my
home network findsmb was able to find 2 PCs in my network, in addition
to my secondary Mac that also has a smb share, whereas the Finder was
lucky to find one smb share.
Andre
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