I am trying to connect to a Samba printer. The share name is \\Penti2\dj and when I browse the network, it is shown as such. But when I try to install this printer on W95 or W98, I get: "share name not found".

Tcpdump show the following reply:

SMB PACKET: SMBtconX (REQUEST)
SMB Command = 0x75
Error class = 0x0
Error code = 0 (0x0)
Flags1 = 0x0
Flags2 = 0x0
Tree ID = 0 (0x0)
Proc ID = 8131 (0x1fc3)
UID = 100 (0x64)
MID = 42753 (0xa701)
Word Count = 4 (0x4)
smbvwv[]=
Com2=0xFF
Off2=0 (0x0)
Flags=0x2
PassLen=1 (0x1)
Passwd&Path&Device=
smb_bcc=19
smb_buf[]=
[000] 00 5C 5C 50 45 4E 54 49 32 5C 44 4A 00 4C 50 54 \000\\PENTI 2\DJ\000LPT
[010] 31 3A 00 1:\000



10:39:59.901231 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 40333, offset 0, flags [DF], length: 79) Penti.Penti.Penti.netbios-ssn > 192.168.87.87.1036: P [tcp sum ok] 1058:1097(39) ack 1369 win 5840
>>> NBT Packet
NBT Session Packet
Flags=0x0
Length=35 (0x23)

SMB PACKET: SMBtconX (REPLY)
SMB Command = 0x75
Error class = 0x1
Error code = 67 (0x43)
Flags1 = 0x80
Flags2 = 0x1
Tree ID = 0 (0x0)
Proc ID = 8131 (0x1fc3)
UID = 100 (0x64)
MID = 42753 (0xa701)
Word Count = 0 (0x0)
SMBError = ERRDOS - 67

I found the cause of the problem. My smb.conf had path=/var/samba/public/ in the [printers] section; I copied it from a prior installation. However, the subdir public does nor exist.

In my opinion, testparm should have detected this, but anyway it works now.