smbclient question

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Mona,
I am able to make this work as you describe.  It looks from the error that
your lmhosts file entries might not be formatted properly;  can you post the
actual name you are using (hostname) and the entry in your lmhost file for
that name?

mine works simply if I do the following:
lmhosts file entry:
15.44.48.50  captain

command:
echo "My message" | opt/samba/bin/smbclient -R lmhosts -M captain

you might also want to post your smb.conf file, so the interfaces, bind
interfaces only, etc. lines can be examined...
Hope this helps,
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Gourgy, Mona [mailto:Mona.Gourgy at stelco.ca]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 2:05 PM
To: 'samba at samba.org'
Subject: smbclient question


Hi,

We have installed Samba on our unix box.  I am trying to send messages using
"winpopup" to our NT computer from our Unix server.
I have added the IP addresses and names we are trying to send the messages
to in the lmhosts file and I also included the DNS server IP address in the
smb.conf file.  The options for address resolution are lmhosts wins

I am trying to send the message doing the following:

echo "My message" |  opt/samba/bin/smbclient -R lmhosts -M hostname 

Added interface ip=x.x.x.x  bcast=x.x.x.x nmask=x.x.x.x
error connecting to destIP:b (Invalid argument)
Connection to destIP failed


I also tried this using the IP address doing the following

echo "My message" | opt/samba/bin/smbclient -I Ipaddress

However, this did not work and it came back with the smbclient options.
What is wrong with this method?

Can you please give some information on how to make this work.  It is really
urgent since we need to send those message to the users asap.  Thanks for
your support.


Mona Gourgy
Network Analyst
Stelco Inc. 
Phone:  (905) 528-2511 ext. 2502
Fax:  (905) 577- 4533
mailto:mona.gourgy at stelco.ca