WiiMC 1.2.0, SMB, NTLMv1, port 445

[Anonymous]

First of all, thanks to Tantric and everyone else involved in the development of WiiMC for all your efforts and for providing WiiMC as a FLOSS project.

Second of all, I’d like to ask for some support upon SMB (network shares) in WiiMC 1.2.0. Basically, I can’t get it to work at all and unfortunately WiiMC doesn’t provide any detailed information about connection failure, i.e. it just doesn’t connect. My setup is an Ubuntu 11.10 server running Samba 3.5.11, providing some share to the LAN at 192.168.1.254, port 445 (and 139) – this actually is the default Samba config. So far, every client I have in my LAN (Ubuntu 10.10, Android 3.2 and Mac OSX 10.6.8) connects to before mentioned Ubuntu server without any troubles but WiiMC. I use security=User authentication with my primary UNIX account, i.e. I don’t provide any guest login for security reasons.

So far, so good … There are several threads in the forums about SMB issues already and I gathered the information (from Tantric actually) that WiiMC uses NTLMv1 client authentication on port 445, i.e. that’s the requirement for a successful SMB connection of WiiMC as a client. Unfortunately, after deeper investigation, I found out that unless both requirement are already met at Ubuntu server (NTLMv1 AND port 445, both are default in Samba 3.5.11), WiiMC is still unable to connect.

Attached is /etc/samba/smb.conf (testparm-v). Most notably the configuration options “ntlm auth = yes” and “smb ports = 445 139”. I even allowed port 445 (only) for testing purposes without any more luck in WiiMC connection.

ruf@eeego:~$ testparm -v

Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf

rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)

Processing section "[printers]"

Processing section "[print$]"

Processing section "[core]"

Loaded services file OK.

Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions



[global]

dos charset = CP850

unix charset = UTF-8

display charset = LOCALE

workgroup = WORKGROUP

realm =

netbios name = EEEGO

netbios aliases =

netbios scope =

server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)

interfaces =

bind interfaces only = No

security = USER

auth methods =

encrypt passwords = Yes

update encrypted = No

client schannel = Auto

server schannel = Auto

allow trusted domains = Yes

map to guest = Bad User

null passwords = No

obey pam restrictions = Yes

password server = *

smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

private dir = /etc/samba

passdb backend = tdbsam

algorithmic rid base = 1000

root directory =

guest account = nobody

enable privileges = Yes

pam password change = Yes

passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

passwd chat = *Entersnews*spassword:* %nn *Retypesnews*spassword:* %nn *passwordsupdatedssuccessfully* .

passwd chat debug = No

passwd chat timeout = 2

check password script =

username map =

password level = 0

username level = 0

unix password sync = Yes

restrict anonymous = 0

lanman auth = No

ntlm auth = Yes

client NTLMv2 auth = No

client lanman auth = No

client plaintext auth = No

client use spnego principal = No

preload modules =

dedicated keytab file =

kerberos method = default

map untrusted to domain = No

log level = 0

syslog = 0

syslog only = No

log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

max log size = 1000

debug timestamp = Yes

debug prefix timestamp = No

debug hires timestamp = Yes

debug pid = No

debug uid = No

debug class = No

enable core files = Yes

smb ports = 445 139

large readwrite = Yes

max protocol = NT1

min protocol = CORE

min receivefile size = 0

read raw = Yes

write raw = Yes

disable netbios = No

reset on zero vc = No

acl compatibility = auto

defer sharing violations = Yes

nt pipe support = Yes

nt status support = Yes

announce version = 4.9

announce as = NT

max mux = 50

max xmit = 16644

name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast

max ttl = 259200

max wins ttl = 518400

min wins ttl = 21600

time server = No

unix extensions = Yes

use spnego = Yes

client signing = auto

server signing = No

client use spnego = Yes

client ldap sasl wrapping = plain

enable asu support = No

svcctl list =

deadtime = 0

getwd cache = Yes

keepalive = 300

lpq cache time = 30

max smbd processes = 0

paranoid server security = Yes

max disk size = 0

max open files = 16384

socket options = TCP_NODELAY

use mmap = Yes

hostname lookups = No

name cache timeout = 660

ctdbd socket =

cluster addresses =

clustering = No

ctdb timeout = 0

load printers = Yes

printcap cache time = 750

printcap name =

cups server =

cups encrypt = No

cups connection timeout = 30

iprint server =

disable spoolss = No

addport command =

enumports command =

addprinter command =

deleteprinter command =

show add printer wizard = Yes

os2 driver map =

mangling method = hash2

mangle prefix = 1

max stat cache size = 256

stat cache = Yes

machine password timeout = 604800

add user script =

rename user script =

delete user script =

add group script =

delete group script =

add user to group script =

delete user from group script =

set primary group script =

add machine script =

shutdown script =

abort shutdown script =

username map script =

logon script =

logon path = \%N%Uprofile

logon drive =

logon home = \%N%U

domain logons = No

init logon delayed hosts =

init logon delay = 100

os level = 20

lm announce = Auto

lm interval = 60

preferred master = No

local master = Yes

domain master = Auto

browse list = Yes

enhanced browsing = Yes

dns proxy = No

wins proxy = No

wins server =

wins support = No

wins hook =

kernel oplocks = Yes

lock spin time = 200

oplock break wait time = 0

ldap admin dn =

ldap delete dn = No

ldap group suffix =

ldap idmap suffix =

ldap machine suffix =

ldap passwd sync = no

ldap replication sleep = 1000

ldap suffix =

ldap ssl = start tls

ldap ssl ads = No

ldap deref = auto

ldap follow referral = Auto

ldap timeout = 15

ldap connection timeout = 2

ldap page size = 1024

ldap user suffix =

ldap debug level = 0

ldap debug threshold = 10

eventlog list =

add share command =

change share command =

delete share command =

preload =

lock directory = /var/run/samba

state directory = /var/lib/samba

cache directory = /var/cache/samba

pid directory = /var/run/samba

utmp directory =

wtmp directory =

utmp = No

default service =

message command =

get quota command =

set quota command =

remote announce =

remote browse sync =

socket address = 0.0.0.0

nmbd bind explicit broadcast = Yes

homedir map = auto.home

afs username map =

afs token lifetime = 604800

log nt token command =

time offset = 0

NIS homedir = No

registry shares = No

usershare allow guests = Yes

usershare max shares = 100

usershare owner only = Yes

usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershares

usershare prefix allow list =

usershare prefix deny list =

usershare template share =

panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

perfcount module =

host msdfs = Yes

passdb expand explicit = No

idmap backend = tdb

idmap alloc backend =

idmap cache time = 604800

idmap negative cache time = 120

idmap uid =

idmap gid =

template homedir = /home/%D/%U

template shell = /bin/false

winbind separator = 

winbind cache time = 300

winbind reconnect delay = 30

winbind enum users = No

winbind enum groups = No

winbind use default domain = No

winbind trusted domains only = No

winbind nested groups = Yes

winbind expand groups = 1

winbind nss info = template

winbind refresh tickets = No

winbind offline logon = No

winbind normalize names = No

winbind rpc only = No

create krb5 conf = Yes

comment =

path =

username =

invalid users =

valid users =

admin users =

read list =

write list =

printer admin =

force user =

force group =

read only = Yes

acl check permissions = Yes

acl group control = No

acl map full control = Yes

create mask = 0744

force create mode = 00

security mask = 0777

force security mode = 00

directory mask = 0755

force directory mode = 00

directory security mask = 0777

force directory security mode = 00

force unknown acl user = No

inherit permissions = No

inherit acls = No

inherit owner = No

guest only = No

administrative share = No

guest ok = No

only user = No

hosts allow = 192.168.1., 10.0.0., localhost

hosts deny =

allocation roundup size = 1048576

aio read size = 0

aio write size = 0

aio write behind =

ea support = No

nt acl support = Yes

profile acls = No

map acl inherit = No

afs share = No

smb encrypt = auto

block size = 1024

change notify = Yes

directory name cache size = 100

kernel change notify = Yes

max connections = 0

min print space = 0

strict allocate = No

strict sync = No

sync always = No

use sendfile = No

write cache size = 0

max reported print jobs = 0

max print jobs = 1000

printable = No

printing = cups

cups options =

print command =

lpq command = %p

lprm command =

lppause command =

lpresume command =

queuepause command =

queueresume command =

printer name =

use client driver = No

default devmode = Yes

force printername = No

printjob username = %U

default case = lower

case sensitive = Auto

preserve case = Yes

short preserve case = Yes

mangling char = ~

hide dot files = Yes

hide special files = No

hide unreadable = No

hide unwriteable files = No

delete veto files = No

veto files =

hide files =

veto oplock files =

map archive = Yes

map hidden = No

map system = No

map readonly = yes

mangled names = Yes

store dos attributes = No

dmapi support = No

browseable = Yes

access based share enum = No

blocking locks = Yes

csc policy = manual

fake oplocks = No

locking = Yes

oplocks = Yes

level2 oplocks = Yes

oplock contention limit = 2

posix locking = Yes

strict locking = Auto

share modes = Yes

dfree cache time = 0

dfree command =

copy =

preexec =

preexec close = No

postexec =

root preexec =

root preexec close = No

root postexec =

available = Yes

volume =

fstype = NTFS

set directory = No

wide links = No

follow symlinks = Yes

dont descend =

magic script =

magic output =

delete readonly = No

dos filemode = No

dos filetimes = Yes

dos filetime resolution = No

fake directory create times = No

vfs objects =

msdfs root = No

msdfs proxy =



[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = /var/spool/samba

create mask = 0700

printable = Yes

browseable = No



[print$]

comment = Printer Drivers

path = /var/lib/samba/printers



[core]

path = /core/

read only = No

All that said, may you please have a look at described issue and point me into the right direction, i.e. make WiiMC-Music and -Video happen in our living room? I’m unfortunately out of ideas.

Thanks a lot in advance,
R

[Anonymous]

YES!!! I actually got it to work, i.e. found a workaround after investigating the SMB logs at my Ubuntu server. It seems that the issue is related to name resolution/Netbios and, that said, I’m still looking for a better/smoother solution to the problem but here is what I did so far …

I configured my DHCP server to assign a fixed IP (in my case 192.168.1.39) to my Wii console and entered that very IP with corresponding hostname (in my case Wii) of the Wii console to /etc/hosts at my Ubuntu server and it started working. Love it!

192.168.1.39 Wii

[rodries]

Glad that you got it working 🙂

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