I am using samba-2.2.7a-7.9.0 on my redhat 9.0 system,this linux pc having 120 gb hdd for taking incremental backup of excel & word files of all users over the network.

When I am mapping from linux system to windows pc through mount or smbmount command it gives below error.

[root@localhost root]# smbmount //satish/imp /mnt/satishpc/imp -o username=administrator,password= rw
4249: session request to SATISH failed (Called name not present)

I had checked my share names and pc names for lowercase and uppercase they are correct it gives error but the mapping is done I can view files of the network pc in /mnt folder, same with the mount command error giving below.

[root@localhost root]# mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password= //satish/imp /mnt/satishpc/imp/
4675: session request to SATISH failed (Called name not present)

I had also checked with ip addresses instead of hostnames but the error is the same, even I had created entries in /etc/hosts with hostnames and ip addresses but still samba gives error

Sometimes when mapping with mount or smbmount command for several users,samba command gives same error and it halts so i have to press ctrl+C

My problem is that the command gives error but it halts on the command so please tell me what is exactly I have to do with this issue

Regards

Satish

Could you ever mount windows shares from the satish computer?
What version of windows runs on this computer?
How many other computers are on your network and what versions of windows are running on them?

Most of the time when I have problems like this its to do with DNS. Have you tried using just your IP? For example: