Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:00:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: rknebel@uplink.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharity light Message-ID: <199910022300.TAA04370@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <99100216153401.00311@rknebel.uplink.net> from Rick Knebel at "Oct 2, 1999 04:15:09 pm"
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Rick Knebel wrote,
> Hi,
> I am running samba and can connect to my mac and win box with it using
> smbclient.
>
> I am trying to use sharity light to mount the mac and win partitions.
>
>
> When I type this in
> /usr/local/sbin/shlight //sknebel/Mac /home/rknebel/samba/Mac -n
>
> I get sknebel unknown host.
>
> What am I missing.
> I can connect to sknebel fin with smbclient.
On the smbmount(8) manpage,
"servicename
servicename is the name of the service you want to use
on the server. It takes the form //server/service/root-
dir where server is the name of the Lan Manager server
offering the desired service and service is the name of
the service offered...
Currently smbmount uses gethostbyname() to find the IP
number of the desired host. It is thus not really com-
patible with Lan Manager conventions, where the netbios
name of the server is not necessarily the same as the
hostname. In environments which enforce a netbios name
that's different than the hostname, you should use -s
and -c to simulate appropriate behaviour."
That is, you need to use the DNS name or IP address of sever and _NOT_
the NetBIOS name if it is different from the DNS name.
This is the _opposite_ of Samba, e.g. from smbclient(1),
"servicename
servicename is the name of the service you want to
use on the server. A service name takes the form
//server/service where server is the NetBIOS name
of the SMB/CIFS server offering the desired service
and service is the name of the service offered.
...
Note that the server name required is NOT necessar-
ily the IP (DNS) host name of the server ! The name
required is a NetBIOS server name, which may or may
not be the same as the IP hostname of the machine
running the server."
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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