smbclient and ip address

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

I don't know the answer to this one but
you might get more responses from samba at samba.org 

brad

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 07:25, Geeta Singh wrote:
> 
> I am not able to use ip address in servername instead of netbios name,
> like 
> smbclient //10.3.1.90/tvs1 -P -N
> It gives error:
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
> 
> but when I use  server netbios name instead of IP address it gets 
> connected successfully.
> How can I connect to a server through smbclient if I know only the ip 
> address of the server?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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