Been working on this for quite some time now! Networking between my main puter Win2K Pro & 2nd with Linux Mandrake 8.1. Am able to see the Linux machine in the Network Neighborhood and access it BUT not able to access the share directory.Net view,nmblookup,smbclient -L all are positive. I can see the shared disk from the W2K machine on Linux machine.The problem is on the Linux machine:
Smbclient -L shows my sharename,type and comment sections from my Linux machine but running the command :
smbclient '\\servername\sharename' gives me the following message >"tree connect failed: ERRDOS-ERRnosuchshare (you specified an invalid share name)".Running this command from Linux to access the Win2K shared disk is successful.I have not been able to find any posts on the net where someone found a solution to this problem. Anyone have a solution???
Thank's- Dave

some firewall stuff for ipchains and samba


-A input -p tcp -j ACCEPT -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 137:139
-A input -p tcp -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 137:139
-A input -p udp -j ACCEPT -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 137:139
-A input -p udp -j DENY -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 137:139
-A input -p tcp -j ACCEPT -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 901

Is the share name actually there in the absolute path specified?

Does the user have permission to access it.
Are they added to smb users?




Are you sure it's not //server/share ?

Also try with windows 2k enable the guest account.

mount -t smbfs //win2k/share /mnt/win2k