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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Sunny Dubey wrote:

> bash-2.05# mount -t smbfs -o username=family,password=family //main/sec 
> /mnt/smb/
> 1025: Connection to main failed
> SMB connection failed

It probably can't decode the name "main" into an ip#. Try adding
ip=172.16.1.25 to the list of options.

> however ... at the same time I know my linux box can see the share with the 
> following command ...
> 
> bash-2.05$ smbclient -L 172.16.1.25 -U family

Can you do 'smbclient -L main -U family' ?

mount -t smbfs -o username=family,password=family //172.16.1.25/sec /...
should also work, if giving an IP works for smbclient.

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