Hello Tony! What if you use IP address instead of localhost?
127.0.0.1 might better than localhost, as localhost is a DNS-like name, but as I know the whole SAMBA uses netbios naming conventions. So please try with the IP address. - Tamas Fekete Debian v9.0 user 2017-07-28 17:53 GMT+02:00 tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net>: > Hello. > > Maybe a minor samba config problem but searches only show up some very old > stuff and that doesn't appear to rectify the problem. > > Once, again, Debian Stretch with samba installed. All I need is to access > a few files on Stretch from a win7 box, and that works. What I can't get > to work is the smbclient command to view the status of shares on Stretch. > smbclient -L localhost results in a password request, then entered, and > the result is invariably this: > > smbclient -L localhost > Enter tjm2's password: > > Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL) > > I've tried different users and root with the same result. Tried adjusting > the routing tables and using actual ip instead of localhost, also with no > improvement. > > I'm overlooking something, but it's not clear to what that is. Like I > said, the connection between boxes works just fine with no problems. > > thanks, > tony > >
