Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Thanks for this trick. Unfortunately,
> # smbclient 192.168.0.1 password -U Admin
>
> 192.168.0.1: Not enough '\' characters in service
>
> # smbclient -U Admin -L 192.168.0.1
> Connection to 192.168.0.1 failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
>
> I have seen in smbclient's manpages that a password can be
> given. Where do I have to put it? I tried everywhere in
> # smbclient -U Admin -L 192.168.0.1
> but I always read
> 192.168.0.1: Not enough '\' characters in service
>
> Any idea?

OK, it should be smbclient -L //192.168.0.1 (or whatever IP is used)

> You use the fact that the share is CIFS-based, but I am not sure that
> it is. I read the whole (trivial) manual, and various messages on the
> Internet, but I never found any standard specification about the
> sharing protocol D-Link uses. Thanks for any idea.

In this case, it might not be possible to access the driver under Linux.
If they use some proprietary protocol, someone has to write Linux
support for it. And if it's not published anywhere, it becomes quite
difficult for someone else to implement the protocol.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br