[Samba] Problems with smbmount

[Urban Widmark]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, George wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> 
> I run a Debian system and have recently began having problems with
> smbmount. I have updated to the latest version only to find that I can't
> use smbmount at all. The problem:

And which is the latest version?

> $ smbmount //10.0.0.1/Write mnt
> timeout connecting to 10.0.0.1:445
> 1942: session request to 10.0.0.1 failed (SUCCESS - 0)
> timeout connecting to 10.0.0.1:445
> 1942: session request to 10 failed (SUCCESS - 0)
> timeout connecting to 10.0.0.1:445
> 1942: session request to *SMBSERVER failed (SUCCESS - 0)
> SMB connection failed
> 
> Questions: Why is samba trying to connect to port 445 on the server (this
> is blocked by the firewall, but until now has never been a problem.

Does it stop trying on 445 if you add "-o port=139" ?

The samba code was changed to try on 445 before trying 139. win2k 
listens on both and eventually systems using 139 will disappear.

Not sure why it doesn't try both.

/Urban