I have a Xandros 3 - Windows Xp network running through a router and I am having a problem with seeing xp shares.

My Xandros 3 machine can see xp under Windows network tab but when I go in no shares are shown. (I HAVE set up xp shares!)
Xp can see all Xandros shares and all works as expected

I used smbclient -l //Novatech (xp computer name) and the output was.

smbclient -L //novatech
Password:
Domain=[BLAND] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_OK
Domain=[BLAND] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------

I've googled this with no luck and messed around with services on the xp but to no avail.
Also, I have tried turning off every security and firewall i can find - no change

Any help welcome

If you are running the network through a router, then you are running afowl of the NetBIOS named resolution issue. If you are not using WINS, NetBIOS resolution depends on broadcast messages which to do transfer across routers very well. Linux/Samba can announce their SMB shares on a remote subnet but Windows cannot. Since Windows XP cannot be a WINS server, setup Samba to play the WINS server (this works very well).

To be sure it is a NetBIOS name issue, replace the Windows computer name with its IP address in the smbclient statement (//111.222.333.444 instead of //mycomputer). If this doesn't work, the problem lies elsewhere.

I note there are no share names listed on the output of your smbclient -L //<WinXP server name> command. When I do this from my FC5 box, I see all the printer and disk shares that I have defined on our XinXP box. Other than that, my output is the same as yours, without the "NT_STATUS_OK" status message. File Browser (Nautilus 2.14.0) successfully connects to the WinXP box disk shares.

I'm just guessing here, but when you created your Win shares, did you enable "Share this folder" on the "Sharing" tab properties of your shared folder? Can you verify sharing from another Win box?

HTH,
Jon

thankyou for the help but the NetBIOS does not seem to be the problem.
I tried smbclient -L //(ip-address) but it came out with this result:

smbclient -L //192.168.0.2
Password:
Domain=[BLAND] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_OK
session request to 192.168.0.2 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[BLAND] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------


I have double checked all the file sharing in xp and there should be both folders and a printer shared.