I have a linux machine with two windows machines, an xp machine and a 98 machine The command smbclient -L xp_machine fails on resolve_hosts but then goes on to resolve_wins when trying to connect to the xp machine. smbclient -L 98_machine pukes out on resolve_hosts error connecting to 0.20etc etc (Invalid argument) error connecting to 0.20 etc etc (invalid argument) connection to 98_machine failed