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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