Re: trouble with smbclient

[Mike Bird <mgb@yosemite.net>]

On Wed August 19 2009 18:46:52 Steve Kleene wrote:
> I'm trying to use smbclient to connect from the console of an Etch host to
> a Windows server at work.  As root, I can mount my directory on the server
> by entering this:
>
>   mount -t cifs //site.uc.edu/kleene /mnt -o username=place/steve
>
> and my password.  However, any of these smbclient lines fails:
>
>   smbclient -L //site.uc.edu/kleene -U username=place/steve
>   smbclient -L //site.uc.edu/kleene -U username=place/steve%password
>
>   smbclient -L \\\\site.uc.edu\\kleene -U username=place\\steve
>   smbclient -L \\\\site.uc.edu\\kleene -U username=place\\steve%password
>
> The error is:
>   session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
>
> Any idea how to succeed with smbclient?  Thanks.

The "-L" is used to list shares on a server.  To connect to
a share you should omit it.  The following should work:

smbclient //site.uc.edu/kleene -U place/steve