Fool Ultrabac into thinking Samba file server is NT Workstation

[dalchri]

One of the annoying features of Ultrabac is that you may be able to view a file fine in the network neighborhood but Ultrabac will refuse to back it up. This appears to be a licensing issue as Ultrabac will back up NT workstations fine but not other NT servers, 2000 servers or a linux box running samba.

Does anyone know of a way through the smb.conf file or any other way to emulate a windows NT workstation. Does anyone know how Ultrabac determines what sort of computer it is dealing with across the network?

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

[srwagner]

If you invoke:
$ smbclient -L //nt4machinename
(from a Linux machine with smb client loaded) you get back:
Domain=[MYDOMAIN] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0]
If you invoke:
$ smbclient -L //nt4machinename
(from a Linux machine with smb client loaded) you get back:
Domain=[MYDOMAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.x.x]

From this, you may be able to test your attempts at spoofing an NT4 smb server with samba.

Sorry I can't be of much more help

 

[smah]

Try changing (or adding if not already there) the os level line of smb.conf.
To announce as NT Workstation 4.0 set os level = 17

 

[dalchri]

It turns out that as soon as I joined the computer to my domain, Ultrabac was satisfied. Before I was testing on a Linux box that was not joined to the domain. Thanks for the suggestions!