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distro for classic xbox with Samba 3.0.24

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Alexander Ladda

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Feb 15, 2008, 6:44:27 PM2/15/08
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I have been running Xebian 1.4 on my xbox for years now. I mounted samba
shares of my other Windows machines. That worked fine, until Vista came
along. I couldn't get samba to connect properly to the Vista machine.
Microsoft changed the samba protocol.

The long and the of it: I am looking for a distribution, that will
provide at least Samba 3.0.24. I have a mod-chip installed and a
Cromwell BIOS flashed on it. I'd be happy about any suggestions.

greets,
Alexander Ladda

Michael Schnell

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Feb 16, 2008, 5:19:40 AM2/16/08
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Win98 also can't connect to new Microsoft servers (they do provide a
patch, though).

I had no problems to connect a PC with SUSE Linux 10.2 to such a server.
Only problem was: when defining a permanent connection with the mount
command, the protocol has been renamed from smbfs to cifs. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block

Hope this helps,

-Michael

Alexander Ladda

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Feb 18, 2008, 4:14:59 AM2/18/08
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Michael Schnell wrote:
> Win98 also can't connect to new Microsoft servers (they do provide a
> patch, though).

afaik, only Win2k and Win XP clients can connect properly, although I
only had the chance to test with Win XP Home and Professional.[1]

> I had no problems to connect a PC with SUSE Linux 10.2 to such a server.

I can connect successfully from my Debian Etch and Ubuntu 7.10. Both are
using pretty recent Versions of Samba, i.e. 3.0.24 and 3.0.26a
respectively.[2] The problem with my Xebian-distribution is, that it is
based on Debian Sarge. I tried backporting the samba package, but it's
(only) inches short: 3.0.23c. And that doesn't work yet.

I tried dist-upgrade twice, but couldn't get it right. Both times the
system was destroyed afterwards, due to problems with the graphics...

Yesterday I found this distribution: Gentoox[3]. It's based on Gentoo
(as one would guess :) ). But I couldn't find a list of packages Gentoox
is using. Can someone show me?

greets,
Alexander Ladda

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/chkdsk/archive/2006/03/10/548787.aspx
[2] http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.24.html

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