[Samba] How to get XP to show its browse list?

Hamish captainmish at gmx.net
Mon Apr 19 08:16:19 GMT 2004


Have you tried -U Administrator ? This will prompt for the admin pwd. 
Works for me :)
You can also do add the password with -P (almost sure) but its not such 
a good idea i suppose.
Hope that helps!

David Rankin wrote:

>Mates,
>
>    Suse 8.2 pro, samba 2.2.7a, 2 XP pro clients. How do I get XP to allow
>access to its browse list. smbclient gives an access denied error.
>
>skyline:/home/david # smbclient -U% -L localhost
>added interface ip=192.168.6.14 bcast=192.168.6.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
>Domain=[RB_LAW] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.7a-SuSE]
>
>        Sharename      Type      Comment
>        ---------      ----      -------
>        Skyline        Disk      Skyline Shares
>        config         Disk      Admin Config Share
>        IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (Skyline Network Server
>2.2.7a-SuSE)
>        ADMIN$         Disk      IPC Service (Skyline Network Server
>2.2.7a-SuSE)
>
>        Server               Comment
>        ---------            -------
>        KIDSDELL             Dell 2400 2.8GHz
>        RIPPER               XP2800
>        SKYLINE              Skyline Network Server 2.2.7a-SuSE
>
>        Workgroup            Master
>        ---------            -------
>        RB_LAW               SKYLINE
>
>Now if I try to see the share on ripper, I get:
>
>skyline:/home/david # smbclient -U% -L ripper
>added interface ip=192.168.6.14 bcast=192.168.6.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
>Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 192.168.6.100 )
>Domain=[RB_LAW] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>
>        Sharename      Type      Comment
>        ---------      ----      -------
>Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
>
>        Server               Comment
>        ---------            -------
>
>        Workgroup            Master
>        ---------            -------
>
>    Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
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