[Samba] System Error 53..

Adlar Kim jwkim at ai.mit.edu
Thu Jul 10 04:21:12 GMT 2003


I am trying to setup tunneling samba over ssh. I followed all the steps on the 
samba howto page. Then, things worked quite smoothly until I tried 
"net view 127.0.0.1". I get "System Error 53 has occurred". Here's what I did:

I have linux server running samba 2.2.8a and windows XP as client machine.

@ In windows, disabled file and printer sharing and enabled LMHOSTS lookup.

@ In windows, created lmhosts with '127.0.0.1 fakename'

@ In widnows, ran ssh client with local forwarding. 139 localhost:139

@ In linux, I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 139

@ In windows, I can telnet to 127.0.0.1 139. If I run 'netstat -tn | grep 139' 
from ssh client, I get something like:

$ netstat -tn | grep 139
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:139           127.0.0.1:2708          ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:2708          127.0.0.1:139           ESTABLISHED


@ If I run 'net view fakename' from cmd window I get:

System error 53 has occurred.
The network path was not found.


-- Adlar




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