<chapter id="FAQ-errors"> <title>Common errors</title> <sect1> <title>Not listening for calling name</title> <para> <programlisting> Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN Not listening for calling name </programlisting> </para> <para> 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. </para> <para> Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the global section of smb.conf. </para> <para> 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. </para> </sect1> <sect1> <title>System Error 1240</title> <para> 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. </para> <para>There are two main solutions: <simplelist> <member>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of the samba HOWTO Collection</member> <member>disable this behaviour in NT. See the section about Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection </member> </simplelist> </para> </sect1> <sect1> <title>smbclient ignores -N !</title> <para> <quote>When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command <command>smbclient -N -L</command> 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. </quote> </para> <para> 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. </para> <para> To get the behaviour that you probably want use <command>smbclient -L host -U%</command> </para> <para> 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. </para> </sect1> <sect1> <title>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</title> <para> 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. </para> <para> To overcome this problem use conv=binary when mounting the cdrom before exporting it with Samba. </para> </sect1> </chapter>