smblient can't see sometimes...

[Martin Mielke]

Hello all,

it's strange. I've installed SAMBA twice, always with success. I've gone
through the DIANOSIS.txt tests without problems and SAMBA works fine for
us.
The reason for this email: when I use smbclient -L $SERVER to see the
shares on a PC box, I sometimes miss something. Take the following as
example:

# smbclient -L pivita 
Added interface ip=192.1.1.21 bcast=192.1.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Wed Sep 24 17:42:32 1997
Timezone is UTC-7.0

Server=[PIVITA] User=[] Workgroup=[JALEO] Domain=[]

        Sharename      Type      Comment
        ---------      ----      -------
        ADMIN$         Disk      
        C$             Disk      
        D$             Disk      
        DESKJET 520    Printer   
        DOLORES        Disk      
        IPC$           IPC       Remote Inter Process Communication
        PRINTER$       Disk      

NOTE: There were share names longer than 8 chars.
On older clients these may not be accessible or may give browsing errors

that's all OK. But I also have gotten this:


# smbclient -L pivita 
Added interface ip=192.1.1.21 bcast=192.1.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Server time is Wed Sep 24 17:42:32 1997
Timezone is UTC-7.0

Server=[PIVITA] User=[] Workgroup=[JALEO] Domain=[]

        Sharename      Type      Comment
        ---------      ----      -------
        ADMIN$         Disk      
        DESKJET 520    Printer   
        DOLORES        Disk      
        IPC$           IPC       Remote Inter Process Communication
        PRINTER$       Disk      

NOTE: There were share names longer than 8 chars.
On older clients these may not be accessible or may give browsing errors

As you see, C$ and D$ are lost somewhere... is there any way to see/use
them even though if they are not listed?
What is happening here for this to happen?... is there any known
solution?

SAMBA (1.9.16p11) is running on a SGI under IRIX 6.2 and the problems
arise with Win95 boxes. I still haven't experienced such a case with
NT's.


Thanks in advance and best regards,

M at rtin
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Martin Mielke
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martin at jaleo.idecnet.com
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