RE: smbclient/windows 2K settings?

ups sorry, i didn't read all the message lol ;P

The problem is that your linux box is not resolving names (NetBios
sessions).
Under w2k if you have a WINS running you could add it to your smb.conf file
the 'wins server' directive that points to your WINS server IP

	wins server	= 192.168.1.1


Here is the HELP for the wins server directive:

"wins server (G)
This specifies the IP address (or DNS name: IP address for preference) of
the WINS server that nmbd(8) should register 	with. If you have a WINS
server on your network then you should set this to the WINS server's IP.
You should point this at your WINS server if you have a multi-subnetted
network.
NOTE. You need to set up Samba to point to a WINS server if you have
multiple subnets and wish cross-subnet browsing to work correctly.
See the documentation file BROWSING.txt in the docs/ directory of your Samba
source distribution.
Default: not enabled
Example: wins server = 192.9.200.1"


If you don't have a WINS server, you could add in your /etc/hosts an entry
to that machine:

	192.168.1.5		your_machine_name



Francisco M. Vaucher
Departamento IT
Tyco / ADT Security Services
Buenos Aires - Argentina
mailto:[email protected]


-----Mensaje original-----
De: John G. Wohlbier [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviado el: viernes, 20 de septiembre de 2002 14:33
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: smbclient/windows 2K settings?


Hi,

I am trying to get to a windows share on
a Win2K box on our network using smbclient.
When I try the machine name I get:

$ smbclient //machinename/username
added interface ip=myip bcast=mybcast nmask=mynmask
Connection to morpheus failed

where of course the ip, bcast and nmask are valid numbers,
i just hid them for security sake (??!! i'm a newbie, i don't
know if this is neccessary.)

then if i try using the IP address directly I get

$ smbclient //123.456.789.876/username
added interface ip=myip bcast=mybcast nmask=mynmask
session request to 123.456.789.876 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 123 failed (Called name not present)
Password:

and I can successfully log in. For the life of me I can't
figure out what is happening on the win2k end that won't
let me say the machine name directly.

Help?

Thanks
jgw


-- 
John G. Wohlbier
[email protected]
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~wohlbier
608.265.3981



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