[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS Alias/Multiple connections

[Gordon Ross]

Oh!  I might have a guess what this is - but your captures will verify.
You can also turn on debug logging.  I think you may see that the
"vc==0" feature is causing the new connection to kill the prior ones.


On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Jonathan Leafty
<jleafty+openindianadiscuss at gmail.com> wrote:
> No network captures yet, I was kind of waiting for the fqdn to be fixed as I
> was thinking it was related.  I think I'll have time to do it this weekend,
> I'll load Wireshark on a Windows 7 VM and report back.
>
> Also, I can open two different Explorer Windows (though if you quickly
> navigate against both you may notice it) with two different aliases, what
> matters is data transfer.  If I'm copying/reading data on alias1 and I start
> another on alias2, alias1 gets disconnected.  Same with writes.  I can
> positively say, this never occurred with OS b129-134.  I first noticed it in
> b134a, then Solaris 11 Express, and now OpenIndiana b151a.
>
> Its probably related to the various SMB changes with Windows 7/2K8 so I'll
> try to spin an XP VM up too (I don't have a physical XP box anymore)
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jonathan Leafty
>> <jleafty+openindianadiscuss at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > No they're just set up in DNS.  After b134 (any flavor, OpenSolaris,
>> Solaris
>> > 11 Express) it won't accept CIFS connections to DNS aliases.
>> >
>> > Windows 2008 is the same way, but you can flip a registry setting to let
>> SMB
>> > Connections come in on DNS Aliases even if its not set as a SPN alias
>> (the
>> > more proper way).
>> >
>> > Which brings me to another problem.  I can't authenticate against the
>> actual
>> > AD SPN/Hostname, I get access denied.  But I believe I've seen a bug
>> report
>> > about it.  I can go to \\hostname, but not \\hostname.fqdn  if I had a
>> DNS
>> > alias as a SPN alias, it will do the same.  I haven't packet sniffed yet,
>> as
>> > its not a huge issue and since there was a bug report.
>>
>> Yes, here's the issue for that:  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1087
>>  Unable to connect to the CIFS server using \\servername.fqdn
>> We have someone working on it.
>>
>> Perhaps your alias problem is related.
>>
>> Do you have network captures for the failure?
>> Is it the session setup that fails? Tree connect?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gordon
>>
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