Strange error message...

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Frank Rust wrote:

> I just installed Samba 2.2.7-SuSE on a SuSE Linux 8.2.

This is an old version and has known buffer overflow bugs and there are 
know exploits out there. Please upgrade to 2.2.8a.

> Even with the simplest configuration file I can't get it working.

[Config deleted] 

>   smbclient -L LXT4 -N
> the answer is quite fast:
>   added interface ip=192.168.39.53 bcast=192.168.39.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
>   added interface ip=192.168.39.43 bcast=192.168.39.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> then a long pause, and:
>   session setup failed: Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000
> milliseconds

Have you started the Samba daemons? Can you contact the server at all? 
This suggests that smbclient cannot connect to the smbd on the server.

Do you have a packet trace.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com