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- This describes how to use smbclient to connect to an OS/2 server.
- Knowing this allows you to use a OS/2 printer from unix.
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- Author: riiber@oslonett.no
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- How to login to an OS/2 server
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- Sample setup for OS/2 server running LanMan 2.2:
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- OS/2 Server Name : \\OBV11
- OS/2 User Account : ARNE
- OS/2 Password : xxx
- OS/2 shared service 1 : LASER02
- OS/2 Shared service 2 : PCPROGS
- Samba NetBIOS name : KLATREMUS
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- First, the two servers were started with the commands
- smbd and nmbd -n KLATREMUS.
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- Command to connect to a the shared printer LASER02 on the OS/2 server:
- n
- smbclient '\\OBV11\LASER02' xxx -n ARNE -U ARNE -P
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- and to connect to the shared drive 'PCPROGS':
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- smbclient '\\OBV11\PCPROGS' xxx -n ARNE -U ARNE
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- If login to the OS/2 server fails:
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- The remarkable OS/2 server requires NetBIOS name to be equal to User name.
- This was the only combination of (NetBIOS name, User name) that allowed login.
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- Password xxx must be in upper case, case in user name is unimportant.
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- The OS/2 server responds with "Bad password - name/password pair"
- if the password is illegal (in lowercase, for example).
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- If correct user name and password, but invalid NetBIOS name is given,
- it responds with "... SMBtcon failed. ERRDOS - 65".
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- The OS/2 server can disable login from a list of workstations (PCs)
- corresponding to the NetBIOS name (-n option). I set it up to
- allow login from any workstation.
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- (I experimented quite a lot with the -U and -n options, printed and browsed
- the MS SMB protocol docs and the RFC's, then read some comp.protocols.smb,
- got some tips, tried some "stupid" command line options,
- and at last I got it working!)
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- -Arne-
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