Hi Iam trying to send a message to a windows machine using smbclient have few questions

1. Do I need to have samba server running on the senders side for this to work smbclient -M -L sam (since there was some error popping up when I try to execute this with out samba service running part of the error is tdb(/var/cache/samba/unexpected.tdb): rec_read bad magic 0x43414341 at offset=4652)

2. After I started the samba service I am getting fallowing message and error

I tried both name smbclient -M -L sam and the IP smbclient -M -I 192.168.11.12

added interface ip=192.168.11.20 bcast=192.168.11.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Cannot resolve name -L#0x3

Appreciate your help

Best Regards

AFAIK the server does not have to be running... Its been a long time since I have played with messaging. Have you tried?
smbclient -M netbios_name
or
smbclient -M IP_address

What windows version are you running? Messenger service was turn off by default with XP service pack 1 (I believe) due to it being abused and a security. Just turn the service back on. Hopefully, your LAN blocks SMB traffic from the internet.

Messenger service is no longer available with vista or win 7 and replaced with msg.exe (non home versions from what I have read) however, I do not know if it is backwards compatible.

I guess msg is also available with XP...

Hi michaelk, Sorry for the long stay, I am running XP as you said the service was disabled and even after staring the service did not worked gives me the same error.

On my XP client or Redhat server there are no farewells running and Selinux is disabled

Best Regards