Help please -- smbmount refuses to work!
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Wed Jun 28 15:05:46 GMT 2000
Ben wrote:
>
> box. All I can get is a "session request to BUGS failed
> (Not listening on called name)" error message.
This means that you are probably using the
wrong netbios name. At least that what the
error message means.
> If I do a netstat on the Win2K box it shows the
> connections to :139 though. The username/password that
> is being used to log into the slackware box, is the
> same as the u/p specified on the command like for
> the mount, and is also a matching account created w/
> administrative permissions on the Win2K box. Following
Can you access the share via smbclient?
> PS. Just out of curiosity, does anybody know if you can
> mount a microsoft DFS share from an NT v4 server with
> smbmount? This is not what I'm attempting to do here, but
> was just curious if it would work, since I can't try it out
> myself at the moment! Thanks again.
Nope.
> session request to BUGS failed
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed
> SMB connection failed
Have you looked at the network traffic in a SMB aware
packet sniffer like Ethereal or Netmon?
Cheers,
jerry
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