[ale] Samba Windows 98 connection

[Christopher Fowler]

Thanks, that did it.  I've never had to to that when connecting to NT or
XP shares.  Must be something with Win98.

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:43, Jason Day wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:43:22AM -0500, Christopher Fowler 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)
> 
> smbclient wants a netbios name, not an IP address.  You need to put the
> netbios name of your windows 98 box after the -L.  If the name won't
> resolve, you can specify the IP address with -I, but you still need the
> name.  E.g.
> 
> smbclient -L foo -I 192.168.1.107 -U cfowler
> 
> HTH,
> Jason