[ale] Samba Windows 98 connection

[James Sumners]

In my experience you have to specify a share to connect to. For
example "smbclient //192.168.1.107/c$ -U cfowler".


On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:43:22 -0500, Christopher Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I'm having an issue connecting from my linux box to my Windows 98
> machnie via smbclient.
> 
> cfowler at linux:~/Mov/1> smbclient -L 192.168.1.107 -U cfowler
> session request to 192.168.1.107 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
> 
> I can connect fine from my Windows XP machine.  My desktop is SuSE 9.1.
> Is there something special I nede to configure to allow smb from Linux
> to connect to Windows 98?
> 
> Chris
> 
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