[Samba] smbclient not displaying shares

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Wed Jan 4 10:59:05 GMT 2006


Eric Hines <eehines at comcast.net>

> At 01/03/06 05:48, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >I have just recently installed Samba. I have two WinXP Pro machines 
> >networked to a FreeBSD 5.4 computer. The Printer is connected to one 
> >of the WinXP machines currently.
> >
> >This is the output of the 'smbclient' command.
> >
> >smbclient -U user-name -L winxp
> >Password:
> >Domain=[winxp] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> >
> >         Sharename       Type      Comment
> >         ---------       ----      -------
> >Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_OK
> >Domain=[winxp] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> >
> >         Server               Comment
> >         ---------            -------
> >
> >         Workgroup            Master
> >         ---------            -------
> >
> >As you can see, nothing is listed.
> >
> 
> Does testparm give you any hints?
> 
> Eric Hines

Nothing at all. I created the file with SWAT; therefore, I would assume
the syntax was correct. I have no idea what is wrong.

I have Googled and found others with this problem, but no concrete
solution to it.


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