[Samba] Error: Called name not present ?????

[Mac]

>
>Yesterday it was working very good, but today:
>
># /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L 192.168.0.11
>added interface ip=192.168.0.100 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
>session request to 192.168.0.11 failed (Called name not present)
>session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
>session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
>
>192.168.0.11 - PC with Win98; all pc's with Win98 returns this error.
>PC's with WinXP work OK.


On Windows 95/98 you _must_ supply the name of the PC as part of the connect,
and it must be right, i.e.


smbclient -L NetBIOS-name-of-PC  -I 192.168.0.11

for some reason the PC requires the name to be supplied by the client.

You can use  'nmblookup -A 192.168.0.11' to get the NetBIOS name you need.

If you don't supply one, then 'smbclient' uses '*SMBSERVER' which simply
won't work on Windows 95/98


Hope this helps,


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