Running smbclient

Running smbclient

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,
Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last 
week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will 
install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working.
The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No 
password is requiredd for one machine to access another. 
Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type 
smbclient -L beans
There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the 
man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard 
drive and printer. The command then terminates.
I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow 
smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an 
error message and then terminates.
Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says 
that the connection failed.
Thanks for any suggestions.
John


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Re: Running smbclient

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hi John.
I know nothing about this, but is there a switch that can be used that will
generate a log for debugging so you will know what happened to cause the
terminations?

Re: Running smbclient

[Rafael Skodlar]

I don't like the idea of any computer running without password protection 
anywhere, even small offices. The main reason is that people get spoiled 
and think it's always that way and make unresonable requests based on 
that later on.

My suggestion is to setup a Linux box as a PDC server with users
authenticating to it. That way you can easily setup permissions for file
access, print services, make backups, etc. My suggestion is to either
check Samba website for documentation or buy a book from O'Reilly. It's
worth it.

I use smbtar on Linux to backup windows machine with password and PDC
(W2000 server). Also, all users print over Linux print server.

Check /var/log/samba/ for error and other logs.

You need to experiment with other parameters to smbclient command. -U for 
user is an important one. I can't tell what will work for you without 
knowing your setup in details. Also, W98 is a real pain. W2000 is a bit 
better to integrate into network.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:23:54AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last 
> week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will 
> install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working.
> The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No 
> password is requiredd for one machine to access another. 
> Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type 
> smbclient -L beans
> There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the 
> man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard 
> drive and printer. The command then terminates.
> I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow 
> smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an 
> error message and then terminates.
> Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says 
> that the connection failed.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> John
> 
> 
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Re: Running smbclient

[Janina Sajka]

John:

You can do better than ftp type interfacing. You can mount the smb share in a directory. Here's my mount command:
I put mine in a bash script:


cd /home/janina
mount.smbfs //server/janina$ h -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1
mount.smbfs //server/common g -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1
cd -


On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last 
> week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will 
> install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working.
> The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No 
> password is requiredd for one machine to access another. 
> Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type 
> smbclient -L beans
> There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the 
> man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard 
> drive and printer. The command then terminates.
> I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow 
> smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an 
> error message and then terminates.
> Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says 
> that the connection failed.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> John
> 
> 
> 

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				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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Re: Running smbclient

[John J. Boyer]

Janina,
Thanks. You are always helpful. I'll keep your message for reference. 
Meanwhile I got smbclient to access the other machines on the network 
when run as root. The next step is to get Samba up and running as part 
of the boot process.
John
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> John:
> 
> You can do better than ftp type interfacing. You can mount the smb share in a directory. Here's my mount command:
> I put mine in a bash script:
> 
> 
> cd /home/janina
> mount.smbfs //server/janina$ h -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1
> mount.smbfs //server/common g -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1
> cd -
> 
> 
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last 
> > week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will 
> > install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working.
> > The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No 
> > password is requiredd for one machine to access another. 
> > Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type 
> > smbclient -L beans
> > There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the 
> > man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard 
> > drive and printer. The command then terminates.
> > I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow 
> > smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an 
> > error message and then terminates.
> > Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says 
> > that the connection failed.
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > John
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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Re: Running smbclient

[Shaun Oliver]

ok I'll post my suggestions at the top of this mesasage.
ome of the things you need to do iw add the ip addresses for the win9x
machines to your /etc/hosts file.
the syntax is,
ip-address, machinename alias
and ensure that samba is using encrypted passwords even though you're not
supplying passwords.
hth


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On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last
> week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will
> install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working.
> The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No
> password is requiredd for one machine to access another.
> Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type
> smbclient -L beans
> There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the
> man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard
> drive and printer. The command then terminates.
> I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow
> smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an
> error message and then terminates.
> Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says
> that the connection failed.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> John
>
>
>

Re: Running smbclient

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, John:

OK, to get samba starting in the boot process, do the following:

chkconfig --level 35 smb on

The chkconfig script will take care of setting up all the appropriate rc levels.

The above commands tells it to initiate samba in runlevels 3 and 5.

To check a setting, you would do:

chkconfig --list smb

Leave the "smb" off this last command for a report on everything.
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Janina,
> Thanks. You are always helpful. I'll keep your message for reference. 
> Meanwhile I got smbclient to access the other machines on the network 
> when run as root. The next step is to get Samba up and running as part 
> of the boot process.
> John
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > John:
> > 
> > You can do better than ftp type interfacing. You can mount the smb share in a directory. Here's my mount command:
> > I put mine in a bash script:
> > 
> > 
> > cd /home/janina
> > mount.smbfs //server/janina$ h -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1
> > mount.smbfs //server/common g -o username=janina,password="password",uid=500,gid=500,iocharset=iso8859-1
> > cd -
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last 
> > > week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will 
> > > install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working.
> > > The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No 
> > > password is requiredd for one machine to access another. 
> > > Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type 
> > > smbclient -L beans
> > > There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the 
> > > man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard 
> > > drive and printer. The command then terminates.
> > > I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow 
> > > smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an 
> > > error message and then terminates.
> > > Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says 
> > > that the connection failed.
> > > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > > John
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

lynx and pricewatch.com

[philwh]

Hi.
Has anyone noticed that pricewatch.com nolonger works with lynx?
or is it just my installation now?
When I go to the pricewatch.com site, lynx just shows
what looks like random junk on the screen,
not even an error message.

If someone could try it and let me know?

many thanks

Phil

Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Buddy Brannan]

It's just you, phil. Pricewatch worked as late as late Saturday
night. ...
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Cheryl Homiak]

I just tried pricewatch briefly and it appears to me to be working ok with lynx.
But I haven't really kept up on this thread so maybe I'm just not hitting your
problem.

Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[philwh]

no, I think Karl had the same problem, and now lynx
is back to normal. I sent them a message
this morning explaining the problem,
and apparently, they must have changed something.

phil

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 02:05:27PM -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> It's just you, phil. Pricewatch worked as late as late Saturday
> night. ...
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Luke Davis]

Works fine for me with V2.8.5dev.7.

Luke

On Mon, 6 May 2002 philwh@gate.net wrote:

> Hi.
> Has anyone noticed that pricewatch.com nolonger works with lynx?
> or is it just my installation now?
> When I go to the pricewatch.com site, lynx just shows
> what looks like random junk on the screen,
> not even an error message.
>
> If someone could try it and let me know?
>
> many thanks
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  It says it requires a browser which
uses frames.  I get a screen telling to switch to a browser
that supports frames.

          Kenny
	  On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:24:20AM -0400, philwh@gate.net wrote:
> Hi.
> Has anyone noticed that pricewatch.com nolonger works with lynx?
> or is it just my installation now?
> When I go to the pricewatch.com site, lynx just shows
> what looks like random junk on the screen,
> not even an error message.
> 
> If someone could try it and let me know?
> 
> many thanks
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Janina Sajka]

Kenny:

It lies. If it only wanted a screen reader that supported frames,
it would know that lynx supports frames. It wants you to use its
own idea of a browser that supports frames.

I, for one, find these "get a broser that supports frames"
offensive.

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.  It says it requires a browser which
> uses frames.  I get a screen telling to switch to a browser
> that supports frames.
> 
>           Kenny
> 	  On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:24:20AM -0400, philwh@gate.net wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Has anyone noticed that pricewatch.com nolonger works with lynx?
> > or is it just my installation now?
> > When I go to the pricewatch.com site, lynx just shows
> > what looks like random junk on the screen,
> > not even an error message.
> > 
> > If someone could try it and let me know?
> > 
> > many thanks
> > 
> > Phil
> > 
> > 
> > 
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				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Cheryl Homiak]

Yeah, Kenny, but sometimes you really do need to switch to a browser that
supports frames, and sometimes you can actually still navigate the site with a
bit of trial and error. I allways ignore those admonitions and try to see what I
can do with the site anyway.

Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Cheryl Homiak]

Good point, Janina. Lynx does support frames, but not in the way most of these
sites mean. However, it still is possible to navigate some of the sites that
make this claim.

Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Luke Davis]

You can ignore that warning, and just access the frames, which should
appear above the warning.

Luke


On Tue, 7 May 2002, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.  It says it requires a browser which
> uses frames.  I get a screen telling to switch to a browser
> that supports frames.
>
>           Kenny
> 	  On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:24:20AM -0400, philwh@gate.net wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Has anyone noticed that pricewatch.com nolonger works with lynx?
> > or is it just my installation now?
> > When I go to the pricewatch.com site, lynx just shows
> > what looks like random junk on the screen,
> > not even an error message.
> >
> > If someone could try it and let me know?
> >
> > many thanks
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Luke Davis]

Lynx _does_ support frames.  It just doesn't render them in the way
Winblows browsers do.

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Yeah, Kenny, but sometimes you really do need to switch to a browser that
> supports frames, and sometimes you can actually still navigate the site with a
> bit of trial and error. I allways ignore those admonitions and try to see what I
> can do with the site anyway.
>
>
>
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Kenny Hitt]

I could get to it with w3m.

          Kenny
	  On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:09:33AM -1000, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Kenny:
> 
> It lies. If it only wanted a screen reader that supported frames,
> it would know that lynx supports frames. It wants you to use its
> own idea of a browser that supports frames.
> 
> I, for one, find these "get a broser that supports frames"
> offensive.
> 
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 
> > Hi.  It says it requires a browser which
> > uses frames.  I get a screen telling to switch to a browser
> > that supports frames.
> > 
> >           Kenny
> > 	  On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:24:20AM -0400, philwh@gate.net wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > Has anyone noticed that pricewatch.com nolonger works with lynx?
> > > or is it just my installation now?
> > > When I go to the pricewatch.com site, lynx just shows
> > > what looks like random junk on the screen,
> > > not even an error message.
> > > 
> > > If someone could try it and let me know?
> > > 
> > > many thanks
> > > 
> > > Phil
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > 
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> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
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Re: lynx and pricewatch.com

[Kenny Hitt]

HI, I usually switch to w3m.
Because of how w3m writes to the screen, I still like to
use lynx as much as possible.
W3m does a much better job than lynx at maintaining layout and format.

          Kenny

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:59:05AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Yeah, Kenny, but sometimes you really do need to switch to a browser that
> supports frames, and sometimes you can actually still navigate the site with a
> bit of trial and error. I allways ignore those admonitions and try to see what I
> can do with the site anyway.
> 
> 
> 
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