samba - Oct 1998 - smbclient -L behavior

Hi,

I'm trying to have a program automate getting a browse list via
smbclient -L.  I am having a problem with the way it handles passwords. 
For example, if I run:

smbclient -L SERVER

Then it prompts for a password.  I can just press enter and it will show
the shares and browse list.  However, if I then try,

smbclient -N -L SERVER

it gives me access denied.  Is there a difference between just hitting
enter for the password and specifying -N?  Also, I tried to get around
this by piping a linefeed, but smbclient doesn't seem to take input
redirection... someone correct me if I'm missing something there.

Please CC replies by email as I'm not on the list.

Thanks!

-- 
-Brian Ryner
bryner@uiuc.edu

I figured this one out after looking at the source... using -N was
trying my regular username (bryner) with no password, which didn't work.
Without the -N, it was first prompting me for a password for bryner, and
if I just hit enter, that was actually failing and then it tried the no
username/no password combination which was able to show the browse
list.  So the command I'm going to use is

smbclient -U "" -L SERVER -N


Brian Ryner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to have a program automate getting a browse list via
> smbclient -L.  I am having a problem with the way it handles passwords.
> For example, if I run:
> 
> smbclient -L SERVER
> 
> Then it prompts for a password.  I can just press enter and it will show
> the shares and browse list.  However, if I then try,
> 
> smbclient -N -L SERVER
> 
> it gives me access denied.  Is there a difference between just hitting