Hy Tony! I would give one more trial. Please use the name what is defined in your /etc/samba/smb.conf in the global section with "netbios name =" If nothing is set, set something, restart the smbd and nmbd service and try with the newly configured name.
If that neither works, I will have temporarly no other idea. - Tamas Fekete 2017-07-28 19:21 GMT+02:00 tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net>: > Thanks. Tried with lo ip and interface ip with the same result. No > change in the response. > No log entries about this. > > > Tony > > On 07/28/2017 09:47 AM, Fekete Tamás wrote: > >> Hello Tony! >> >> What if you use IP address instead of localhost? >> >> 127.0.0.1 might better than localhost, as localhost is a DNS-like name, >> but as I know the whole SAMBA uses netbios naming conventions. >> So please try with the IP address. >> >> - Tamas Fekete >> Debian v9.0 user >> >> 2017-07-28 17:53 GMT+02:00 tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net <mailto: >> t...@threedogs.net>>: >> >> Hello. >> >> Maybe a minor samba config problem but searches only show up some >> very old stuff and that doesn't appear to rectify the problem. >> >> Once, again, Debian Stretch with samba installed. All I need is to >> access a few files on Stretch from a win7 box, and that works. >> What I can't get to work is the smbclient command to view the status >> of shares on Stretch. >> smbclient -L localhost results in a password request, then entered, >> and the result is invariably this: >> >> smbclient -L localhost >> Enter tjm2's password: >> >> Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL) >> >> I've tried different users and root with the same result. Tried >> adjusting the routing tables and using actual ip instead of >> localhost, also with no improvement. >> >> I'm overlooking something, but it's not clear to what that is. >> Like I said, the connection between boxes works just fine with no >> problems. >> >> thanks, >> tony >> >> >> >
