remote mount probs still

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Tue Mar 6 20:15:41 GMT 2001


On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Andrew Galdes wrote:

> [root at andrew andrew]# smbclient -L //203.101.92.170
> added interface ip=192.168.0.1 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> session request to 203.101.92.170 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to 203 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
> [root at andrew andrew]#     
> 
> what am i doing wrong?	

Try giving the netbios name.
% smbclient -L servername
*SMBSERVER only works with win2k and nt4 (iirc)

If the client can't resolve the name you can help it with the -I option.
% smbclient -L servername -I 203.101.92.170

This is described in the smbclient manpage ...

/Urban





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