using libsmbclient to access remote hosts
Mike Gerdts
Michael.Gerdts at usa.alcatel.com
Thu Dec 13 13:03:11 GMT 2001
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:42, Stoyan Stoyanov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I got no problem using libsmbclient from cvs to access machines on my
> local network, but when i try to access some other host on the internet
> I get errors :(
> The same happens when using smbclient //<ip-address>/share.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank You
>
Can you do the same thing from Windows? It is common for firewalls to
block netbios packets so that Windows clients don't send their
(sometimes plaintext) passwords to remote hosts as a result of html tags
like <img src="file://a.badhost.com/blah.gif">.
Mike
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