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From: Steve on 21 Sep 2006 17:40
As I'm using Mandriva, I posted this to that newsgroup a couple o fdays
ago. There's been little response so I wondered if the folks here might be
able to help.

I'm trying to transfer some files from a (separate) Win98 machine. The C:
drive on it is set to share as 'C' to any user, no password. If I run mcc,
the drive is found, I can define a mount point but when I tell it to mount
the partition, it just returns a 'failed' error after a short while.

Trying to do it manually:

[root(a)steve steve]# mount -t smbfs //chris/C/ /home/steve/winshare
timeout connecting to 205.178.189.131:445
timeout connecting to 205.178.189.131:139
19592: Connection to chris failed
SMB connection failed
[root(a)steve steve]#

The manual command used to work ok with SuSE 9.
205.178.189.131 tracks to Network Associates in Virginia USA. Can anyone
tell me what's going on, and help me put it right? Please go easy, I'm
very much a user, not a programmer!

Since the original post I've hooked up a SuSE 10 machine and it finds the
Win share straight off.

Thanks,

Steve
From: John Larkworthy on 22 Sep 2006 03:54
Steve wrote:
> Trying to do it manually:
>
> [root(a)steve steve]# mount -t smbfs //chris/C/ /home/steve/winshare
> timeout connecting to 205.178.189.131:445
> timeout connecting to 205.178.189.131:139
> 19592: Connection to chris failed
> SMB connection failed
> [root(a)steve steve]#
>
> The manual command used to work ok with SuSE 9.
> 205.178.189.131 tracks to Network Associates in Virginia USA. Can anyone
> tell me what's going on, and help me put it right? Please go easy, I'm
> very much a user, not a programmer!
>
> Since the original post I've hooked up a SuSE 10 machine and it finds the
> Win share straight off.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve

Steve,

Your attempt to mount your C: drive is failing due to DNS lookup
obtaining the wrong IP address for your Win98 machine.

While I am sure there are better ways of obtaining the IP address, if it
is a 'one off' or the Win98 machine has a static IP address, I would use
that directly in the mount command.

If the IP address is provided by DHCP or dynamically, I would obtain the
IP address of the Win98 machine using the network neighbourhood
properties or 'winifcfg'. I am assuming that both machines are in the
same network subnet. Then substitute that in the mount command; so I
would expect the mount command to look more like:

mount -t smbfs //192.168.1.100/C/ /home/steve/winshare

It has been a little while since I used Win 98 so I apologise if the
commands are in error but I hope you can see where I am trying to go
with this.

John.
From: Chris Davies on 22 Sep 2006 03:44
Steve <no-one(a)here.now> wrote:
> [root(a)steve steve]# mount -t smbfs //chris/C/ /home/steve/winshare
> timeout connecting to 205.178.189.131:445
> timeout connecting to 205.178.189.131:139
> 19592: Connection to chris failed
> SMB connection failed

> 205.178.189.131 tracks to Network Associates in Virginia USA. Can anyone
> tell me what's going on, and help me put it right?

Assuming you're not really intending to attempt to Network Associates,
this smacks to me of DNS resolving issues.

Here are some questions to start you off...

* What's in the Mandriva's /etc/resolv.conf?
* What's your internal domain name (if any)?
* Is there any entry for "chris" in /etc/hosts? (What is it?)
* What's the entry for "hosts" in /etc/nsswitch.conf?

You might also want to compare these to your SuSE box that's working
as expected.

Chris
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