Windows network gone - I can no longer see it.

[aYo Binitie]

OOps scratch that
wrong entries


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:28 PM, aYo Binitie <ayobinitie at googlemail.com>wrote:

> ayo at hailStorm:~$ smbclient -L//hailStorm -U ayo
> Password:
> Domain=[HAILSTORM] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.28a]
>
>     Sharename       Type      Comment
>     ---------       ----      -------
>     print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
>     IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (hailStorm server (Samba,
> Ubuntu))
>     PhotoSmart_C3100 Printer   House Printer
>     PDF             Printer   PDF
>     public          Disk      Just drop it here
> Domain=[HAILSTORM] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.28a]
>
>     Server               Comment
>     ---------            -------
>
>     Workgroup            Master
>     ---------            -------
>     WORKGROUP            HAILSTORM
>
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> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca>wrote:
>
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>> aYo Binitie wrote:
>> > I'm trying to access Windows shares, on a windows workgroup. That's
>> > all :(
>> >
>> Forget the GUI tool for now (we are troubleshooting now)
>>
>> - From the command line:
>>
>> smbclient -L //computername -U username
>>
>> The computer name is the name of the computer you are connecting to.
>> The username is one that exists on the target machine.
>>
>> If you get an error like this:
>> failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME)
>>
>> then that means that name resolution is broken.  There are two solutions
>> (technically 3):
>>
>> 1) create entries in /etc/hosts that map names to ip addresses
>> 1B) Set up a DNS server to do name lookups.  This is what I do but some
>> people find this scary and it is an overkill solution.
>> 2) connect with IP addresses
>>
>> So, instead of a name, use the IP address
>> smbclient -L //192.168.0.100 -U username
>>
>> Also, in my house I map all the network drives.  So on windows machines
>> all network shares get drive letters, under linux they get mount points
>> (as defined in /etc/fstab or whatever GUI front end you use).  Relying
>> on the workgroup browser is a bad idea, even in a purely windows
>> network.  I have had a home network long before I got into Linux in the
>> '90s so this approach is born of years of hard earned experience.
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