smbclient does not find windows 5.1 workgroup

Hello,

the windows-firewall is disabled. the routers are configured to forward
netbios traffic on port 139. I am possible to mount the windows shares
with smbmount.

But the smbclient doesn´t find the windows 5.1 workgroup.

How can I access the workgroup?

regards,

Dirk Lehmann

Dirk Lehmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the windows-firewall is disabled. the routers are configured to
> forward netbios traffic on port 139. I am possible to mount the
> windows shares with smbmount.
>
> But the smbclient doesn´t find the windows 5.1 workgroup.
>
> How can I access the workgroup?

If you are going across routers, then you /really/ should
set up a WINS server.


B

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numpty@1.novell.mailtrap.org.uk schrieb:
> Dirk Lehmann wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> the windows-firewall is disabled. the routers are configured to
>> forward netbios traffic on port 139. I am possible to mount the
>> windows shares with smbmount.
>>
>> But the smbclient doesn´t find the windows 5.1 workgroup.
>>
>> How can I access the workgroup?
>
> If you are going across routers, then you /really/ should
> set up a WINS server.
>
>
> B
>

WINS is a server with a datebase which has the ip-adress and the
computernames. I don´t think that this will solve my problem woth
finding the smb-workgroup.

But it seems that NetBIOS Traffic is blocked between the both computers.

Dirk Lehmann