Just after some investigation, but seems not to be the cause: In source3/client/client.c:
The popt Arguments are specified like this: { "ip-address", 'I', POPT_ARG_STRING, NULL, 'I', "Use this IP to connect to", "IP" }, According to http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/z77.html the NULL value issued here should be a address of an buffer to hold the information gathered on the command line. This is set to NULL. But ok, the argument seems to be taken from: if (!interpret_string_addr(&dest_ss, poptGetOptArg(pc), 0)) { exit(1); } After this also seems now useless, i post the output: smbclient -L NAME -I IP -UGuest Enter nobody's password: Connection to NAME failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME) I have also verified using nmblookup -A ip address the name is ok. If i set the Hostname+IP in /etc/hosts all works ok. But in older versions/bugfree versions of smbclient it worked straight without any entry in the /etc/hosts file. Debugging: INFO: Current debug levels: all: True/10 tdb: False/0 printdrivers: False/0 lanman: False/0 smb: False/0 rpc_parse: False/0 rpc_srv: False/0 rpc_cli: False/0 passdb: False/0 sam: False/0 auth: False/0 winbind: False/0 vfs: False/0 idmap: False/0 quota: False/0 acls: False/0 locking: False/0 msdfs: False/0 dmapi: False/0 registry: False/0 lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters Initialising global parameters rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384) params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file "/etc/samba/smb.conf" Processing section "[global]" doing parameter netbios name = FOOBAR handle_netbios_name: set global_myname to: FOOBAR doing parameter netbios aliases = FOO doing parameter workgroup = WORKGROUP pm_process() returned Yes lp_servicenumber: couldn't find homes set_server_role: role = ROLE_STANDALONE Attempting to register new charset UCS-2LE Registered charset UCS-2LE Attempting to register new charset UTF-16LE Registered charset UTF-16LE Attempting to register new charset UCS-2BE Registered charset UCS-2BE Attempting to register new charset UTF-16BE Registered charset UTF-16BE Attempting to register new charset UTF8 Registered charset UTF8 Attempting to register new charset UTF-8 Registered charset UTF-8 Attempting to register new charset ASCII Registered charset ASCII Attempting to register new charset 646 Registered charset 646 Attempting to register new charset ISO-8859-1 Registered charset ISO-8859-1 Attempting to register new charset UCS2-HEX Registered charset UCS2-HEX Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE Substituting charset 'UTF-8' for LOCALE added interface eth1 ip=2001:6f8:1378::2 bcast=2001:6f8:1378:0:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff netmask=ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: added interface eth1 ip=2001:6f8:1378:0:200:cbff:fe68:58bd bcast=2001:6f8:1378:0:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff netmask=ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: added interface eth1 ip=fe80::200:cbff:fe68:58bd%eth1 bcast=fe80::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff%eth1 netmask=ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: added interface eth1 ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 netmask=255.255.255.0 Netbios name list:- my_netbios_names[0]="FOOBAR" my_netbios_names[1]="FOO" Client started (version 3.5.6). Enter nobody's password: Opening cache file at /var/run/samba/gencache.tdb tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/gencache.tdb: Keine Berechtigung tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/gencache.tdb: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Attempt to open gencache.tdb has failed. sitename_fetch: No stored sitename for internal_resolve_name: looking up NAME#20 (sitename (null)) Opening cache file at /var/run/samba/gencache.tdb tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/gencache.tdb: Keine Berechtigung tdb(unnamed): tdb_open_ex: could not open file /var/run/samba/gencache.tdb: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Attempt to open gencache.tdb has failed. no entry for NAME#20 found. resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name NAME<0x20> resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name NAME<0x20> resolve_wins: WINS server resolution selected and no WINS servers listed. resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name NAME<0x20> resolve_hosts: getaddrinfo failed for name NAME [Der Name oder der Dienst ist nicht bekannt] name_resolve_bcast: Attempting broadcast lookup for name NAME<0x20> bind succeeded on port 0 Socket options: SO_KEEPALIVE = 0 SO_REUSEADDR = 1 SO_BROADCAST = 1 Could not test socket option TCP_NODELAY. Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPCNT. Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPIDLE. Could not test socket option TCP_KEEPINTVL. IPTOS_LOWDELAY = 0 IPTOS_THROUGHPUT = 0 SO_SNDBUF = 110592 SO_RCVBUF = 110592 SO_SNDLOWAT = 1 SO_RCVLOWAT = 1 SO_SNDTIMEO = 0 SO_RCVTIMEO = 0 Could not test socket option TCP_QUICKACK. Sending a packet of len 50 to (192.168.0.255) on port 137 Sending a packet of len 50 to (192.168.0.255) on port 137 Sending a packet of len 50 to (192.168.0.255) on port 137 lang_tdb_init: /usr/share/samba/de_DE.UTF-8.msg: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Connection to NAME failed (Error NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org