Windows 8 and SMB2 Issues

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We're playing with the consumer preview of Windows 8 and having issues accessing some network shares in our environment.

Basically, when I attempt to access a share directly (\[SERVER].[DOMAIN].[NETWORK]\Share$) I get 'An extended error has occured'.

The shares reside on an EMC Celerra system. Sorry, I don't really have much more information about it (this is just a little side project). Accessing shares that reside on Windows machines are fine.

The Firewall is completley disabled and I am running under full domain administrative credentials.

A quick wireshark shows the following group of packets between myself and the server:

SMB2    164 NegotiateProtocol Request
SMB2    274 NegotiateProtocol Response
SMB2    981 SessionSetup Request
SMB2    281 SessionSetup Response
SMB2    200 TreeConnect Request Tree: \\[SERVER].[DOMAIN].[NETWORK]\[SHARE]$
SMB2    138 TreeConnect Response
SMB2    202 Ioctl Request NETWORK_FILE_SYSTEM Function:0x0080
SMB2    131 Ioctl Response, Error: STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST
SMB2    126 SessionLogoff Request
SMB2    126 SessionLogoff Respons

This repeats five times and then (I assume) Windows throws me the above error.

A quick Google shows me:

0xC0000010
STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST
The specified request is not a valid operation for the target device.

Which shows me that NETWORK_FILE_SYSTEM Function:0x0080 request is invalid..

Does anyone know what would cause this?

Thanks in advance.

Rhys.

Edit: FYI – as a workaround, you can disable SMB 2.2 as noted in the EMC thread:

sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi
sc config mrxsmb20 start= disabled

This will allow the machine to access the shares. The below answer still stands though 🙂

Best Answer

While I don't know the specific cause, it appears that the problem has already been noted in EMC circles. According to them, you'll need the newest Celerra release you can get your hands on.

I suspect the core of the problem is that Windows 8 uses SMB2.2, and one of two things is happening:

  1. Celerra isn't fully implementing the protocol it negotiates with the Win8 box.
  2. Protocol negotiation is failing to come to a correct agreement; perhaps it's suggesting it can do SMB2.2, when in fact it can't and is caught out later.
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