Connection Refused

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Burt Avery wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> I'm running version prealpha2.1.0, just downloaded and built today and
> seeing this message when I attempt to add my first client, ba2k, to my
> server named bmesamba with smbpasswd:
> 
>    error connecting to 192.168.4.42:445
> 
> The attempt to add an account/user subsequently fails. That account (mine)
> exists in the campus NIS database.

you should see this followed up with a successful attempt to connect to
192.168.4.42:139.  if you do not then i have a bug to sort out.  use debug
log level 100.
 
> 192.168 is ficticious of course, but you get the idea. What is 445? Should
> it be a service defined in my /etc/services file like 137, 138, 139 etc.

no.  yes, actually, it should!!!! talk to microsoft about the name.  it
should be something like:

smb	445/tcp		smb	# SMB over TCP