On Tue August 2 2005 6:57 pm, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 17:49 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > On Tue August 2 2005 5:34 pm, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 17:09 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > > > On Tue August 2 2005 5:03 pm, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > > > > smbclient -L StudyPC > > > > > > > > This seems like a problem: > > > > > > > > cj]# smbclient -L StudyPC > > > > timeout connecting to 208.254.3.160:445 > > > > > > > > It's trying to find something on the internet! > > > > > > Well, smbclient -L should be using the IP address of the machine. Is > > > the above the expected IP address? > > from man smbclient it says (on FC3). > -L This option allows you to look at what services are available > on a server. You use it as smbclient -L host and a list should > appear. The -I option may be useful if your NetBIOS names > don’t match your TCP/IP DNS host names or if you are trying to > reach a host on another network. > > I would guess that the host studypc is not named in /etc/hosts and as a > result it is trying to find a suitable host on the internet to match > that hostname. > > An easy fix may be a simple entry in /etc/hosts with the IP address of > that host and try again. > I could do that, but studypc gets its address from my Linux machine which is also doing dhcp, so if the address gets reassigned, I'd be out of luck. I guess I could assign it a permanent address, but, that wouldn't do for the laptop, which is connecting to networks all over the place, and has to get its addresses via dhcp - that is my wife's machine, and I don't think it would function for me to try to educate her on changing her IP address assignment method everytime her location changes. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
