smbclient messaging not responding to control-D

[MarkieB]

sharing is working properly from My computer to the windows 7 computer generally, I transfer files from Nautilus without difficulty;

however when I try to smbclient -M to the windows 7 computer, that has winsent Innocenti LAN messenger, winpopup compatible, although no msg.exe – replacement for net send – in system32, so as far as I know windows 7 home premium is thus capable of receiving messages although not sending them, it initially connects then seems to ignore the control-D 'end of message' code, it's as though smbclient itself is not responding. There is no sign that the control-D action is at all recognized in smbclient. A control-C works, naturally without sending the message though.

Before I installed Innocenti the smbclient -M command was refusing to connect/prompt for a message at all, so it looks as though the windows side of it is working at least basically.

mark@mycomputer:~$ smbclient -U Mark -M WINDOWS-PC
Enter Mark's password:
Type your message, ending it with a Control-D
Hi there!
cli_message returned NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT

as requested in the apport-bug preliminaries, the result of smbclient -L localhost

mark@mycomputer:~$ smbclient -L localhost

Enter mark's password:
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.8]

 Sharename Type Comment
 --------- ---- -------
 print$ Disk Printer Drivers
 print Disk
 IPC$ IPC IPC Service (MyComputer server (Samba, Ubuntu))
 MyPrinter Printer My Printer
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.8]

 Server Comment
 --------- -------
 WINDOWS-PC
 MYCOMPUTER MyComputer server (Samba, Ubuntu)

 Workgroup Master
 --------- -------
 WORKGROUP MYCOMPUTER

the result of smbclient -U Mark -L WINDOWS-PC

$ smbclient -U Mark -L WINDOWS-PC
Enter Mark's password:
Domain=[WINDOWS-PC] OS=[Windows 7 Home Premium 7600] Server=[Windows 7 Home Premium 6.1]

 Sharename Type Comment
 --------- ---- -------
 PrinterName Printer PrinterName
 ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
 C$ Disk Default share
 D$ Disk Default share
 E$ Disk Default share
 IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
 print$ Disk Printer Drivers
 Users Disk

 Server Comment
 --------- -------

 Workgroup Master
 --------- -------

Looking forward to hearing from someone :-)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: smbclient 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.54-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 30 14:53:21 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SambaClientRegression: Yes
SourcePackage: samba
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-30 (245 days ago)

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you verify whether

echo "hello world" > msg.txt
smbclient -U Mark -M WINDOWS-PC < msg.txt

works?

[MarkieB (ubunt-u-markbenjamin)]

Hi Serge,

thanks for writing, apologies for the delay it looks as though my launchpad emails were going to a list email address that I monitor less frequently;

the behaviour is similar when calling input from a file that way; prompt for password then no action, no responding to ctrl-D, eventual error message as before

Best regards

Mark

[El Zorro (arzorro)]

Hi,

I've read this thread. And I have the same problem with smbclient. Is there know a solution available ????

El

[El Zorro (arzorro)]

I mean now ... (not know) sorry