[Samba] smbclient, bug?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Pierre Belanger wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is this a bug?
> 
> By mistake, I was trying to connect to a samba server using
> smbclient... but the samba server did not allow my client to
> connect to the server, because of a "hosts allow" restriction.
> 
> I can understand smbclient reporting the first error:
> 
>   session request to ALKONOST failed (Not listening for calling name)
> 
> but, what is this "second" error,
> 
>   session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Not listening for calling name)

It is a built in default netbios name that SMB server use sometimes.










cheers, jerry
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