1 <chapter id="FAQ-errors">
3 <title>Common errors</title>
6 <title>Not listening for calling name</title>
10 Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN
11 Not listening for calling name
16 If you get this when talking to a Samba box then it means that your
17 global "hosts allow" or "hosts deny" settings are causing the Samba
18 server to refuse the connection.
22 Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the
23 global section of smb.conf.
27 It can also be a problem with reverse DNS lookups not functioning
28 correctly, leading to the remote host identity not being able to
29 be confirmed, but that is less likely.
34 <title>System Error 1240</title>
37 System error 1240 means that the client is refusing to talk
38 to a non-encrypting server. Microsoft changed WinNT in service
39 pack 3 to refuse to connect to servers that do not support
40 SMB password encryption.
43 <para>There are two main solutions:
45 <member>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of
46 the samba HOWTO Collection</member>
48 <member>disable this behaviour in NT. See the section about
49 Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection
56 <title>smbclient ignores -N !</title>
59 <quote>When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command
60 <command>smbclient -N -L</command>
61 the program always prompts for the password if the server is a Samba server.
62 It also ignores the "-N" argument when querying some (but not all) of our
67 No, it does not ignore -N, it is just that your server rejected the
68 null password in the connection, so smbclient prompts for a password
73 To get the behaviour that you probably want use <command>smbclient -L host -U%</command>
77 This will set both the username and password to null, which is
78 an anonymous login for SMB. Using -N would only set the password
79 to null, and this is not accepted as an anonymous login for most
86 <title>The data on the CD-Drive I've shared seems to be corrupted!</title>
89 Some OSes (notably Linux) default to auto detection of file type on
90 cdroms and do cr/lf translation. This is a very bad idea when use with
91 Samba. It causes all sorts of stuff ups.
95 To overcome this problem use conv=binary when mounting the cdrom
96 before exporting it with Samba.