A service is a share made available by samba or by the windows computer. smbclient -L hostname will list the services on the host. smbclient \\\\hosthame\\service will attach to the service For example: smbclient \\\\hammer1\\public will attach to the share public on host hammer1 Joel Joel On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 03:12:35PM -0800, Lamar Seifuddin wrote:> Joel, > > thanks for responding to my post. > What is a "service name" > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Hammer [mailto:jhammer2@home.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 12:46 PM > To: Lamar; samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: smbclient error > > > > You have to use a service name. > Joel > On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:24:56PM -0600, Lamar wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I have a Linux and a Windows2k network. The Windows pc > > can "see" the Linux pc. > > > > But I can't get Windows on Linux up; > > > > I had this working, but don't know why it's not working now: > > > > > > I've looked thru the DIAGNOSTICS.txt file and could not find the > > error: > > > > > > smbclient //192.168.2.20/ > > added interface ip=192.168.2.4 bcast=192.168.2.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 > > session request to 192.168.2.20 failed (Called name not present) > > session request to 192 failed (Called name not present) > > Password: > > Domain=[MAKEMEWORK] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] > > tree connect failed: ERRDOS - ERRnosuchshare (You specified an invalid > > share name)_______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ----- End forwarded message -----