smbclient problem! (fwd)

Ng Choon Hooi chng at radon.comm.mot.com
Mon May 18 08:11:27 GMT 1998


Hi all,
  I was directed by Luke to send to the samba digest. Hope someone can help. Thanks.
  
p/s: Pls cc to chng at comm.mot.com

rgds,
  choon
  
> 
> hi choon,
> 
> this is a standard issue that if you ask on the samba digest
> (samba at samba.anu.edu.au) you are likely to get about three replies to :-)
> 
> i'm not answering too many questions at the mo: i have r.s.i.
> 
> good luck!
> 
> luke
> 
> On Sun, 17 May 1998, Ng Choon Hooi wrote:
> 
> > Hi Luke,
> >   I couldn't find the way to post my message from the samba h/page. I
> > got your address from the archive. Hope you can help me with the
> > following problem. I am trying to set up my samba on my slackware linux,
> > so that I can file-share with my win95 machine. Apprently, I have the
> > following error mesg. 
> > 
> >  With "interfaces = 192.168.0.2" in smb.conf
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > saturn:~# smbclient -L saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Failed to get my hostname.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > No interface found for address 208.108.11.80
> > Added interface ip=208.108.11.80 bcast=208.108.11.255
> > nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host. saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host SATURN.
> > 
> >  With "interfaces = 192.168.0.2" in smb.conf
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > saturn:~# smbclient -L saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Failed to get my hostname.
> > Added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host saturn.
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host. saturn
> > Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host SATURN.
> > 
> > "saturn" is that hostname of my linux machine. Its ip is 192.168.0.2.I
> > am not sure why it says  Unknown host. saturn, though I can
> > ping/telnet/ftp to "saturn", both by hostname as well as by ip addr. Do
> > you have any idea what could be the problem? When smbclient is executed,
> > what files does it refer to anyway? Thank you. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> >   Choon
> > 
> 
> 




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