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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:28:21 +0200
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: smbclient problem
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On Wed, Jul 09, 1997 at 11:18:10PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
> 	I've got samba installed and smbclient runs (it seemed to demand
> that smb.conf be installed in the right place, and doesn't create any log
> files).  However, once I get to my "share," the files that are there--and
> there are quite a few of them--don't list, and trying to change to a 
> subdirectory, of which there are half a dozen or so, doesn't work.  The
> server is NT3.5.  I think I've got smbclient running okay (although I'm
> not sure); maybe there's something I need to ask the operator of the
> NT machine to do?
> 
> 	Here's a script file from smbclient:
> 
> Script started on Wed Jul  9 22:57:15 1997
> andrsn:~ {1} smbclient \\\\HooWeb\\Anderson
> Added interface ip=36.33.0.163 bcast=36.33.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
> Got a positive name query response from 36.33.0.85 (36.33.0.85)
> Server time is Wed Jul  9 22:54:34 1997
> Timezone is UTC-7.0
> Password: 
> Domain=[HOOVER] OS=[Windows NT 3.51] Server=[NT LAN Manager 3.51]
> smb: \> ls
> 
>                 54216 blocks of size 32768. 31317 blocks available
> smb: \> cd www
> chkpath: ERRDOS - ERRbadpath (Directory invalid.)
> smb: \> cd 1990s
> chkpath: ERRDOS - ERRbadpath (Directory invalid.)
> smb: \> pwd
> Current directory is \\HOOWEB\ANDERSON\
> smb: \> exit
> Script done on Wed Jul  9 23:10:56 1997
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated....

This really looks strange. Never saw this. Is it a NTFS partition?
What is the actual path on the NT side? You should be able to get a log file
with more details (raise the debug level):

mbclient \\\\HooWeb\\Anderson -d 9

 
> 	Annelise
> 
> 

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de