Bug 1581016

Summary:	smbclient echos 'Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.' to tty
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	joel <jwooten>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	jstephen
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Andrej Dzilský <adzilsky>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.5	CC:	adzilsky, amitkuma, andrewrdwyer, asn, gdeschner, jarrpa
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Description joel 2018-05-22 01:11:33 UTC

Description of problem:

new samba output gives help notice, this breaks pre-existing scripts
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.7.1

How reproducible:
constant

Steps to Reproduce:
1.just connect
2.
3.

Actual results:
Help message

Expected results:
no message

Additional info:
would like method to block this unhelpful help message

Comment 2 Andreas Schneider 2018-05-22 14:49:24 UTC

Could you please open an upstream bug for this?

Comment 3 joel 2018-05-25 18:45:00 UTC

Customer would like a way to remove this output:

samba-client-4.7.1-6.el7.x86_64::
 # /usr/bin/smbclient -m SMB2 //example.com/Epic_Test -A /home/root/bin/.smbclient_pwim
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \>

The connection is successful, but existing scripts see the output as an error.

Comment 4 Andreas Schneider 2018-06-21 15:47:38 UTC

FYI: We are working on a fix.

Comment 6 Andreas Schneider 2018-07-04 11:44:02 UTC

We have patch for smbclient which adds an --quiet option to silence the output.

Comment 10 Andrej Dzilský 2018-07-23 10:43:43 UTC

Works as intended. Verified.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 08:00:00 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3056