Bug#1009907: Smbclient error: "Failed to mount Window share: invalid argument"

Michael Tokarev

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Apr 20, 2022, 12:50:03 PM4/20/22

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20.04.2022 16:06, Salis, Antonello (NFOD) wrote:
> Package: smbclient
> Version: 2:4.16.0+dfsg-6
>
> Debian testing
>
> When I try to browse Windows folders with Nautilus or Nemo i get "Failed to mount Window share: invalid argument".
> This never happened before last week.

Does smbclient work by itself for you?

> Found a similar topic here:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275179

An interesting find. I quickly browsed there, but don't immediately see a
solution in there. I'll take a closer look.

Ironically, the smbclient I built locally from the current samba package
does not work for me at all: it says

protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE

after asking me for a password - when I try to connect to a share or
get a list of shares. So far I don't know what it is.. :)

/mjt

Michael Tokarev

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Apr 20, 2022, 1:10:03 PM4/20/22

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20.04.2022 19:44, Michael Tokarev wrote:
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> An interesting find. I quickly browsed there, but don't immediately see a
> solution in there. I'll take a closer look.

This appears to be the fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/merge_requests/138
(which is in gnome-vfs).

But does smbclient work for you?

Thanks,

/mjt

Michael Tokarev

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Apr 20, 2022, 1:50:03 PM4/20/22

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Control: reassign -1 gvfs-backends 1.50.0-1
Control: tag -1 + upstream patch

20.04.2022 16:06, Salis, Antonello (NFOD) wrote:
> Package: smbclient
> Version: 2:4.16.0+dfsg-6
>
> Debian testing
>
> When I try to browse Windows folders with Nautilus or Nemo i get "Failed to mount Window share: invalid argument".
> This never happened before last week.

> Found a similar topic here:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275179

This appears to be this issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/611
and this fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/merge_requests/138

I'm reassigning this to gvfs. Hopefully I doing it right :)

Thank you for the bugreport!

/mjt

Simon McVittie

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Apr 25, 2022, 6:40:04 AM4/25/22

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Control: tags -1 - patch
Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/619

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 20:44:38 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 20.04.2022 16:06, Salis, Antonello (NFOD) wrote:
> > When I try to browse Windows folders with Nautilus or Nemo i get "Failed to mount Window share: invalid argument".
> > This never happened before last week.
> > Found a similar topic here:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275179
>
> This appears to be this issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/611
> and this fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/merge_requests/138

I don't think that's necessarily it, unless all the people seeing this
have a misconfigured Kerberos setup (which seems unlikely).

I tried upgrading gvfs to version 1.50.1 (which includes !138) and I cannot
connect successfully to a Samba share that allows anonymous access, logging
in as ANONYMOUS.

Workaround: I *can* connect successfully to a share that allows guest
access with an arbitrary username and a non-empty password (I used
"aaa", which is not my password on the server). This seems consistent
with upstream bug 619, which does not yet have a known solution.

smcv

Michael Tokarev

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Apr 27, 2022, 7:50:03 AM4/27/22

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27.04.2022 14:38, Salis, Antonello (NFOD) wrote:
> The new update 2:4.16.0+dfsg-7 is affected as well.

Sure, there was nothing done in there about this issue.
Or else I'd mark it as fixed or at least asked you guys
to try it out :)

Thanks!

/mjt

Michael Tokarev

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May 3, 2022, 4:20:04 AM5/3/22

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Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi!

I uploaded 4.16.1 yesterday to unstable. That one, among other things, includes this:
https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/commit/34771e1931587807d0395c7ac7f4be18654997f4
which, according to the archlinux bugreport, fixes a (similar?) issue.

Can you please verify if 4.16.1-3 works?

Thank you!

/mjt