[Samba] Connection to a Remote XP Box

[Andrew Gaffney]

Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:

>         Win98 SE (F)   Disk
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=somename,password=somepass
>    //s.o.m.e.i.p/F /chris/
>    21287: session request to s.o.m.e.i.p. failed (Called name not present)
>    21287: session request to s failed (Called name not present)
>    21287: tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an
>    invalid share name)
>    SMB connection failed

I think this is a fairly easy problem. The name of the share is not 'F' 
but 'Win98 SE (F)' if I'm not mistaken. That is why you are getting the 
error about no such share.

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