Have you tried explicitly setting the username and workgroup to make the
connection under?
smbclient -W TheSimpsons -U bart -L homer
If you do that, you should be prompted for barts password on TheSimpsons
workgroup, and, once entered, you should be able to see the services
available on Homer.
hth
PJ
-----Original Message-----
From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, December 12, 1999 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] network problem
>Yes Homer is my linux box. I tested to see if smb has started and it had. I
will
>try to restart it. Thanks
>
>P.S. I like the D'OH..
>
>Jeff
>
>Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
>> Homer looks tobe the linuxbox, either smbd never got started it died or
>> it's firewalled.
>>
>> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Gerry Doyon wrote:
>> > I must have missed something, but, you didn't say if "homer" was your
Samba
>> > host name or a Windoze box.
>> >
>> > In either case I would put the name of the server, "Homer", in the
"hosts"
>> > file like:
>> >
>> > home 127.0.0.1
>> >
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > > D'OH!!!
>> > >
>> > > Sorry, had to say it.
>> > > I really don't know a damn about homer....
>> > > -Josh
>> > >
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > > Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:27 pm
>> > > Subject: [newbie] network problem
>> > >
>> > > > I issued the command
>> > > >
>> > > > smbclient -L homer
>> > > >
>> > > > Recieved this message:
>> > > >
>> > > > added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask
255.255.255.0
>> > > > error connecting to 192.168.1.1:139 (connection refused) connection
to
>> > > > homer failed
>> > > >
>> > > > Does anyone have any ideas ?
>> > > >
>> > > > Jeff
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
>> --Axalon
>
