<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 4. Common errors</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2"><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 3. Specific client application problems"><link rel="next" href="FAQ-features.html" title="Chapter 5. 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 4. 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Common errors</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2819236">Not listening for calling name</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2819221">System Error 1240</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2820651">smbclient ignores -N !</a></dt><dt><a href="FAQ-errors.html#id2819326">The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</a></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2819236"></a>Not listening for calling name</h2></div></div><div></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 "hosts allow" or "hosts deny" settings are causing the Samba server to refuse the connection. </p><p> Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" 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><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2819221"></a>System Error 1240</h2></div></div><div></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 behaviour in NT. See the section about Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection </td></tr></table><p> </p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2820651"></a>smbclient ignores -N !</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> “<span class="quote">When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command <b class="command">smbclient -N -L</b> the program always prompts for the password if the server is a Samba server. It also ignores the "-N" argument when querying some (but not all) of our NT servers. </span>” </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 class="command">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><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2819326"></a>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</h2></div></div><div></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><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FAQ-ClientApp.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="samba-faq.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="FAQ-features.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 3. Specific client application problems </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="samba-faq.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 5. Features</td></tr></table></div></body></html>