Jerry, You are the king! This WAS the issue (that I have been struggling with for over a year and always giving up on).
Now when I do a 'smbclient -L <virtualserver>' the %L gets the correct value always: So, I suppose that all the examples and documentation I've found on the net are not entirely correct in that they also need to specify 'smb port = 139' for it to work correctly with Win2K and later: * http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch06.html * http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/69#Distribution%20of%20the%20virtual%20Samba%20servers This is one of those obscure things that if you don't understand all the inner workings of samba and its configuration options (and Win2K and beyond) I don't see how you would get it working. Is there any reason why 'smb ports = 139' should be the default? After all, samba is primarilly for interaction between unix and windows from what I understand. Thank you so much for your response! Tim --- "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tim Harvey wrote: > > I assume you mean 'smb port = 139'? I believe this is > > the default, however this made no difference. > > No. I mean 'smb ports = 139' The default is to bind to > ports 139 adn 445. Windows 2000 and later will use port 445 > which bypasses any netbios operations (such as the session > request that contains the netbios called name which we use > for %L). > > > > > > cheers, jerry > ===================================================================== > Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) ------- http://www.samba.org > GnuPG Key ----- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc > "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCwUQLIR7qMdg1EfYRAlaTAKCsiTYic9ljnkIJqhL3jkjrOoVazwCdG6dB > tg5UDeQpg8zrnS5vcsFbt/8= > =HMSt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba