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+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 5. Common errors</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.59.1"><link rel="home" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="up" href="samba-faq.html" title="Samba FAQ"><link rel="previous" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html" title="Chapter 4. Specific client application problems"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-features.html" title="Chapter 6. Features"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 5. Common errors</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-features.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title"><a name="FAQ-errors"></a>Chapter 5. Common errors</h2></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2811288">Not listening for calling name</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2811329">System Error 1240</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2811215">smbclient ignores -N !</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2811270">The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2874350">Why can users access home directories of other users?</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2874436">Until a few minutes after samba has started, clients get the error &quot;Domain Controller Unavailable&quot;</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2874451">I'm getting &quot;open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was Cannot assign requested&quot; in the logs</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811288"></a>Not listening for calling name</h2></div></div><p>
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN
+Not listening for calling name
+</pre><p>
+</p><p>
+If you get this when talking to a Samba box then it means that your
+global &quot;hosts allow&quot; or &quot;hosts deny&quot; settings are causing the Samba
+server to refuse the connection.
+</p><p>
+Look carefully at your &quot;hosts allow&quot; and &quot;hosts deny&quot; lines in the
+global section of smb.conf.
+</p><p>
+It can also be a problem with reverse DNS lookups not functioning
+correctly, leading to the remote host identity not being able to
+be confirmed, but that is less likely.
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811329"></a>System Error 1240</h2></div></div><p>
+System error 1240 means that the client is refusing to talk
+to a non-encrypting server. Microsoft changed WinNT in service
+pack 3 to refuse to connect to servers that do not support
+SMB password encryption.
+</p><p>There are two main solutions:
+</p><table class="simplelist" border="0" summary="Simple list"><tr><td>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of
+the samba HOWTO Collection</td></tr><tr><td>disable this new behaviour in NT. See the section about
+Windows NT in the chapter &quot;Portability&quot; of the samba HOWTO collection
+</td></tr></table><p>
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811215"></a>smbclient ignores -N !</h2></div></div><p>
+&#8220;When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command
+<b>smbclient -N -L</b>
+the program always prompts for the password if the server is a Samba server.
+It also ignores the &quot;-N&quot; argument when querying some (but not all) of our
+NT servers.
+&#8221;
+</p><p>
+No, it does not ignore -N, it is just that your server rejected the
+null password in the connection, so smbclient prompts for a password
+to try again.
+</p><p>
+To get the behaviour that you probably want use <b>smbclient -L host -U%</b>
+</p><p>
+This will set both the username and password to null, which is
+an anonymous login for SMB. Using -N would only set the password
+to null, and this is not accepted as an anonymous login for most
+SMB servers.
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2811270"></a>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</h2></div></div><p>
+Some OSes (notably Linux) default to auto detection of file type on
+cdroms and do cr/lf translation. This is a very bad idea when use with
+Samba. It causes all sorts of stuff ups.
+</p><p>
+To overcome this problem use conv=binary when mounting the cdrom
+before exporting it with Samba.
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874350"></a>Why can users access home directories of other users?</h2></div></div><p>
+&#8220;
+We are unable to keep individual users from mapping to any other user's
+home directory once they have supplied a valid password! They only need
+to enter their own password. I have not found *any* method that I can
+use to configure samba to enforce that only a user may map their own
+home directory.
+&#8221;
+</p><p>&#8220;
+User xyzzy can map his home directory. Once mapped user xyzzy can also map
+*anyone* elses home directory!
+&#8221;</p><p>
+This is not a security flaw, it is by design. Samba allows
+users to have *exactly* the same access to the UNIX filesystem
+as they would if they were logged onto the UNIX box, except
+that it only allows such views onto the file system as are
+allowed by the defined shares.
+</p><p>
+This means that if your UNIX home directories are set up
+such that one user can happily cd into another users
+directory and do an ls, the UNIX security solution is to
+change the UNIX file permissions on the users home directories
+such that the cd and ls would be denied.
+</p><p>
+Samba tries very hard not to second guess the UNIX administrators
+security policies, and trusts the UNIX admin to set
+the policies and permissions he or she desires.
+</p><p>
+Samba does allow the setup you require when you have set the
+&quot;only user = yes&quot; option on the share, is that you have not set the
+valid users list for the share.
+</p><p>
+Note that only user works in conjunction with the users= list,
+so to get the behavior you require, add the line :
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+users = %S
+</pre><p>
+this is equivalent to:
+</p><pre class="programlisting">
+valid users = %S
+</pre><p>
+to the definition of the [homes] share, as recommended in
+the smb.conf man page.
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874436"></a>Until a few minutes after samba has started, clients get the error &quot;Domain Controller Unavailable&quot;</h2></div></div><p>
+A domain controller has to announce on the network who it is. This usually takes a while.
+</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2874451"></a>I'm getting &quot;open_oplock_ipc: Failed to get local UDP socket for address 100007f. Error was Cannot assign requested&quot; in the logs</h2></div></div><p>Your loopback device isn't working correctly. Make sure it's running.
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