Re: [SLE] browsing w98 clients from the server

Walk next door and ask the Win98 box its name. It is in the Control Panel > Networking > Identification(?). Jeffrey Quoting scc :

Hi.

How can I find the NETBIOS-NAME? Could you give me an example of what to put in /etc/hosts

Thanks, Steve.

On Monday 12 November 2001 19:36, you wrote:

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Try:

smbmount //NETBIOS-NAME/C /mnt -o guest,ip=192.168.0.2

You must know the NETBIOS name of the machine in question. Simpler is to just put entries in /etc/hosts until you have DNS working.

HTH, Jeffrey

Quoting scc :

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Hi everyone.

I'm sitting at the server 92.168.0.1 which is a SuSE 7.2 only box. I want to see w98 clients disks without having to walk into different rooms, but If I do:

mount -t smbfs 192.168.0.2: / /mnt

hoping to see one of the clients disks, I get an error. I haven't got DNS working yet (it's up on another thread). The clients can see the server no problem and printing works too from any client so I think that I must have Samba set up correctly. Also, I can see other clients via nfs which have a Linux partition.

I've read man mount and man smbmount, but find the latter unpenetratable!

*Can* I see the clients from the server or do I have to physically go to the machine itself? If I can, then could someone send me the syntax? And is it to do with me not having worked out how DNS works yet? I notice that none of man smbmount mentions IP's. They always use names.

Any help much apprecieted and sorry to go on so much. It's just that if this don't go, then it's NT or 2000 for us. Not a nice thought.

Thanks, Steve.

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