Windows network gone - I can no longer see it.

[aYo Binitie]

Yes I got the bad NETWORK_NAME

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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:29 PM, aYo Binitie <ayobinitie at googlemail.com>wrote:

> OOps scratch that
> wrong entries
>
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> 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
>>
>> a
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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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