smbclient

[Alice Round]

I've installed the Samba Client and Server software on a unix server running 11.0

I'm using the default configuration file
and when I run /opt/samba/bin/smbclient -M Unable to resolve name

I've put the hostname in /etc/hosts and I've tried this by the IP address also.

[John Poff]

Can you resolve the hostname from the Unix machine? What happens when you try:

nslookup

[Alice Round]

nslookup works by hostname and IP both.

[John Poff]

Hmm. Try the smbclient command again, but this time add this option:

-R hosts

This tells smbclient to use your /etc/hosts file to resolve the name. The default for smbclient is to resolve to lmhost, hosts, wins, and bcast. I'm curious to hear if you get the same error when you specify /etc/hosts.

Also, what are the permissions on your /etc/hosts file? Maybe smbclient can't read it.

Another thing to check is your workgroup name. If you are using the default smb.conf file it might not be set to the same workgroup name as what you are using on your local network. This might only be an issue if you are trying to send a message to a Windows machine.