Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 168042
Mac OS Tiger breaks against samba 3.0.14a
Last modified: 2014-08-31 19:27:49 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: Mac OS X Tiger's SMB client built into its Finder cannot successfully browse shares on a samba 3.0.14a server. Attemping to browse the shares results in a Finder "hang". Note that this problem does not happen with Mac OS X Panther or earlier. The bug reports at https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2973 and http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101707 describe the problem in more detail. The forum thread at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-366970-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html describes several workarounds, too. I haven't tried it yet, but Gerald Carter reports that the bug that is exposed by Tiger is fixed in samba 3.0.20, so I suspect the fix is just to repackage this version of samba. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.14a-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Mac OS X Tiger Finder. 2. Navigate to Network -> {workgroup} -> {systemname} and choose "Connect" Actual Results: The finder "beachballs" and hangs forever. On the FC4 samba server, the /var/log/messages file includes: Sep 5 04:53:07 plope smbd[29955]: [2005/09/05 04:53:07, 0] rpc_parse/parse_prs. c:prs_mem_get(537) Sep 5 04:53:07 plope smbd[29955]: prs_mem_get: reading data of size 2 would o verrun buffer. Sep 5 04:53:07 plope smbd[29955]: [2005/09/05 04:53:07, 0] rpc_server/srv_pipe. c:api_pipe_bind_req(919) Sep 5 04:53:07 plope smbd[29955]: api_pipe_bind_req: unable to unmarshall RPC _HDR_RB struct. Expected Results: Should have seen the browseable shares in the Mac OS X Finder and no errors in the FC4 samba server's log file. Additional info:
I can confirm that compiling and using the SRPM from http://us2.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/Fedora/SRPMS/samba-3.0.20-2.src.rpm instead of the 3.0.14 RPM which is current for FC4 solves the issue.
Rawhide has since been updated to 3.0.20.