smbclient problem

[Ricardo Panez Sys Adm]

Hello,

I have been able to successfully install SAMBA 1.9.17p2 without a
problem on my first try. My SMBD seems to be working fine. I have been
able to browse it from my win95 and NT clients without a problem.
However when I try to use the smbclient I keep getting an error message.
When I type this command :

/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient \\servername\rpanez$ -U ctp.com\rpanez

I get an error saying:

\genesisrpanez$: Not enough '\' characters in service

I have tried doing this putting all characters in uppercase, I have
tried it with no -U but I still keep getting the same error. Is there
something wrong with the way I am typing this in ?
Any help is appreciated. Thank You.

Ricardo Panez
Cambridge Technology Partners
Miami IT

[Tom Perkins]

\ is the unix escape char. You need two them in unix to make one
backslash.

Regards
Tom

[William G. Simeon]

In article <35AEB00A...@ctp.com>, Ricardo Panez Sys Adm <rpa...@ctp.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I have been able to successfully install SAMBA 1.9.17p2 without a
>problem on my first try. My SMBD seems to be working fine. I have been
>able to browse it from my win95 and NT clients without a problem.
>However when I try to use the smbclient I keep getting an error message.
>When I type this command :
>
>/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient \\servername\rpanez$ -U ctp.com\rpanez
>
>I get an error saying:
>
>\genesisrpanez$: Not enough '\' characters in service
>
>I have tried doing this putting all characters in uppercase, I have
>tried it with no -U but I still keep getting the same error. Is there
>something wrong with the way I am typing this in ?
>Any help is appreciated. Thank You.
>
>Ricardo Panez
>Cambridge Technology Partners
>Miami IT
>

Unix uses the backslash character "\" as an 'escape' or 'literal' character.
Therefore, for Unix to recognize a backslash as a backslash you must either
double it, or single quote it.
Try either of the following:

/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclinet \\\\servername\\rpanez$ -U ctp.com\rpanes
-or-
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclinet '\\servername\rpanez$ -U ctp.com\rpanes'

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[john pokotylo]

put a delimiter in the line ie

./smbclient -L /\/\ftpserver\/tmp .....
works on my network

cheers and beers
john

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[Steve Manning]

john pokotylo <poko...@mosaid.com> wrote:

>put a delimiter in the line ie
>
> ./smbclient -L /\/\ftpserver\/tmp .....
>works on my network
>

The reason this works is because forward-slashes ("/") are an
acceptable alternative to back-slashes ("\") in smbclient. The
back-slashes in the above example merely serve to force the unix shell
to interpret the following slash and/or "f" literally, ignoring any
special meaning of the character.

So the example above parses to:
./smbclient -L //ftpserver/tmp .....

Why mess around with back-slashes when you don't have to?

Just because DOS and Windows forces you to use 'em, don't miss out on
this chance to save yourself some headaches! Use forward-slashes with
smbclient instead.

Steve Manning
System Administrator
Mega Marts Inc.
Milwaukee, WI USA
man...@execpc.com