I've been running samba on RHEL5 for the past couple of years with XP clients. Late last year, in order to support new Win7 clients, I upgraded from samba-3.0.33 packages to samba3x-3.3.8 (from the Red Hat-managed configuration tree) and after some struggles got everything working. But now after upgrading to samba3x-3.5.4 I am only able to connect as a known user and not as a guest.
Relevant configuration details from smb.conf: [global] security=user encrypt passwords = yes passdb backend = smbpasswd smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd guest account = gstuser server signing = auto map to guest = Bad User log level = 2 wide links = no follow symlinks = no client ntlmv2 auth = yes client signing = mandatory ... [guest_share] guest only = yes path = <path with sufficient permissions> read only = no When I attempt to map this share on the Win7 side I get an error dialog stating "The specified network drive is no longer available". If I try to connect a similar already-mapped share on the Win7 side I get an error dialog stating "The local device name is already in use." I haven't been able to figure out how to get any further detail on the Windows side. On the Linux side, things appear to progress as expected: the original user is unrecognized, is then mapped to guest, but then I get a getpeername failed error: ... 2011/05/04 20:21:22.054326, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:1390(setup_new_vc_session) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2011/05/04 20:21:22.054791, 2] auth/auth.c:314(check_ntlm_password) check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [CLIENTUSER] -> [CLIENTUSER] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER [2011/05/04 20:21:22.057474, 1] smbd/service.c:1070(make_connection_snum) CLIENTMACHINENAME (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn) connect to service guest_share initially as user gstuser (uid=nnn, gid=nnnn) (pid 31025) [2011/05/04 20:21:22.057875, 0] lib/util_sock.c:474(read_fd_with_timeout) [2011/05/04 20:21:22.058225, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1432(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected read_fd_with_timeout: client 0.0.0.0 read error = Connection reset by peer. [2011/05/04 20:21:22.058376, 1] smbd/service.c:1251(close_cnum) CLIENTMACHINENAME (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn) closed connection to service guest_share [2011/05/04 20:21:42.040820, 1] smbd/server.c:240(cleanup_timeout_fn) Cleaning up brl and lock database after unclean shutdown ... As I say, all works fine with the same Win7 client machine when the server is running samba3x-3.3.8, but gives the above behavior when I upgrade to samba3x-3.5.4. (Staying at 3.3.8 is not optimal because I am in an environment where I need to keep up-to-date with CVEs.) If I authenticate via the guest uname/pwd, I am also able to connect -- just not as an unknown user. Of possible relevance is that I'm not running nbmd, which I haven't need to-date. The change log for the latest samba3x package mentions that SPNEGO parsing was fixed between the two releases and I'm wondering if that could be implicated. Any thoughts? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba