samba - Jan 2005 - "Called name not present" - using smbclient from linu x to access win98

Thanks a lot!
That would be great if you can explain further why and how the netbios
session requires the netbios name, not ip address, 

Thanks again!

Cheers Jason



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From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry@samba.org] 
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:42 AM
To: Chu, Xingjun [CAR:9D10:EXCH]
Cc: 'samba@lists.samba.org'
Subject: Re: [Samba] "Called name not present" - using smbclient from
linux
to access win98


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Xingjun Chu wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I am quite confused by the following observation.
|
| I tried to use smbclient on a linux to access a Windows 98 se.
| ---  Smbclient  //IP address/sharefolder -U username%passwd.
|
| I got some errors like
|
| Session request to [Ip address] failed (called name
| not present).
|
| But I can use  the same command from the same Linux to
| access a Window 2000 machine.

Windows 2000 will support netbiosless operations
where as win9x requires netbios a netbios session.

| But the following fact confused me, I can access
| win98 use "//IP address/sharefolder" from my win2k machine, for 
| example, enter "//win98 ip address/sharefoler" in the
"run", I can get
| in.

Windows 2000 is resolving the ip address to a netbios name
for you.






cheers, jerry
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Xingjun Chu wrote:
|
| Thanks a lot!
| That would be great if you can explain further why and
| how the netbios session requires the netbios name, not
| ip address,

It's part of the protocol.  Just the way it works.
See RFC1001/1002.  Or Christ Hertel's book at
http://ubiqx.org/cifs/







cheers, jerry
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