[Samba] smbclient not displaying shares

[Eric Hines]

At 01/04/06 04:59, you wrote:
>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.

SWAT won't check syntax; that's why you run testparm.  However, 
testparm only checks syntax and otherwise just regurgitates what you 
put into the config file.  If there are no clues from testparm, then 
I have no further ideas.

What do you have for your passdb backend =  input?  I had a problem 
with using tdbsam and forgetting to put anyone into the passdb table; 
when I did that, this problem went away.

Eric Hines

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