[Samba] smbclient can't start a session with stupid XP

[Joel Hammer]

I don't really understand Test 5.
The command looks odd to me, since -B is to set the broadcast address,
paulxp is your client, and '*' searches for all clients.
Odd.
On my little home system, with three computers up and all on the same
subnet, this is what I see with nmblookup '*'

INFO: Debug class all level = 3   (pid 2453 from pid 2453)
added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
bind succeeded on port 0
Socket opened.
querying * on 192.168.0.255
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.6 ( 192.168.0.6 )
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.2 ( 192.168.0.2 )
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.5 ( 192.168.0.5 )
192.168.0.6 *<00>
192.168.0.2 *<00>
192.168.0.5 *<00>

Now, this is broadcast result. That is, my box has sent out a message
on the subnet and these three machines responded, including the local
host machine.

All three of these machines are linux samba servers, btw.

Try nmblookup '*' and see what you get.

Try nmblookup paulxp and see what you get.

Joel


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:55:10PM -0700, Paul Huffman wrote:

> I'd upgrade if I new it would help,  but is 2.2.2 available for Solaris 7 yet?
> 
> 
> Test 5  in DIAGNOSIS.txt gave me this result:
> 
> # bin/nmblookup -B nelsonserver '*'
> Sending queries to 161.217.20.16
> 161.217.20.16 *<00>
> #  bin/nmblookup -B paulxp '*'
> Sending queries to 161.217.20.18
> name_query failed to find name *
> #
> 
> where paulxp is the name of the my stupid new XP.   and nelsonserver is the
> name of an old PC on the same class 3 subnet as paulxp that's aways been
> talking with smbclient. What does this mean though?  paulxp is pingable by
> name,  since it's in the /etc/host file.
> 
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > I am using
> > Version 2.2.2 of samba
> > on linux and have no trouble connecting to XP, either home or professional.
> > So:
> >
> > 1. Do want to upgrade?
> > 2. Have you walked through DIAGNOSIS.txt ? They talk about this as occurring
> > on TEST #3.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 03:47:00PM -0700, Paul Huffman wrote:
> > > I use samba 2.0.5 on a Solaris 7 Ultra 10 to provide UNIX disk mounts
> > > and backups to UNIX tape drives.  But I have this new XP and I can't get
> > > smbclient to connect to it,  although the XP is using all the samba
> > > shares R/W.  All I get is:
> > >
> > > /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient //paulxp/"My Documents" passwd -Tc
> > > mydocumentsxp.tar
> > > Added interface ip=161.217.10.13 bcast=161.217.10.255
> > > nmask=255.255.255.0
> > > session request to PAULXP failed
> > > session request to *SMBSERVER failed
> > >
> > > I tried the regeditor to change the requiressignorseal to 0 and it
> > > worked just one time,  now it's back to saying Sesssion Failed.