[gentoo-user] Can smbmount handle long passwords?

[gentoo-user] Can smbmount handle long passwords?

[Maxim Eremeev]

Due to a little bit of paranoia I have found an interesting, though rather 
annoying, bug in smbmount. If a samba user's password is longer than 23 
chars, smbmount just cannot deal with it, producing the following error:

session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed

Googling was not much of a help, neither was searching through gentoo bugs and 
gentoo forum. Although there are a couple of forum entries which are probably 
related but were never actually solved:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-429074-highlight-samba+errnoaccess.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-418048-highlight-samba+errnoaccess.html

Another interesting thing is that the bug is definitely not related to samba 
server configuration: smbclient still works perfectly well. Using mount.cifs 
is OK as well.
Does anybody have a slightest idea what could be the problem solution?
>From the former forum link one can conclude that it is a specifically gentoo 
problem, though I cannot check this, as I don't have any other linux 
distribution available right now. So should I file a bug report?
I can understand that, say, 24 chars password could seem too long, however I 
don't remeber that such limitation was documented somewhere.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can smbmount handle long passwords?

[Pawel Kraszewski]

Dnia czwartek, 12 października 2006 21:13, Maxim Eremeev napisał:

> Due to a little bit of paranoia I have found an interesting, though rather
> annoying, bug in smbmount. If a samba user's password is longer than 23
> chars, smbmount just cannot deal with it, producing the following error:

Well, I might be wrong, but I think Windoze has a limit of 14 characters in 
passsword (two 7 character pieces to be exact). I didn't try, but it seems 
that pass might be truncated at 14th character... So try logging in with 14 
first characters of your password (or maybe 14 last - who knows the paths of 
Bill)

HTH 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can smbmount handle long passwords?

[Maxim Eremeev]

On 13 October 2006 00:36, Pawel Kraszewski wrote:
> Well, I might be wrong, but I think Windoze has a limit of 14 characters in
> passsword (two 7 character pieces to be exact). I didn't try, but it seems
> that pass might be truncated at 14th character... So try logging in with 14
> first characters of your password (or maybe 14 last - who knows the paths
> of Bill)

Actually, it has no relations to any windows limitations. The samba server is 
on a Gentoo box and the machine I try smbmount on is a Gentoo box as well. As 
a matter of fact I do have a windows PC, and it can reach the samba share 
with no problem at all. It is definitely smbmount bug (as I've mentioned 
already smbclient works perfectly well.
In any case thanks for trying to help :) It seems that there is nobody else on 
the list who is interested in the bug.
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