Mounting an XP share in FreeBSD

[jason]

Gareth wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been experiencing some problems mounting a Windows XP SP2 share 
> in FreeBSD 4.10. My samba version is samba-2.2.8a_2. I have turned off 
> the firewall on the windows machine, and all traffic on the FreeBSD 
> machine's internal 192.168.0 subnet flows freely.
>
> I am trying to mount a share called 'backups' on the windoze machine 
> with the following command:
> mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.11 //guest at 192.168.0.11/backups /mnt/backups/
>
> ... i am prompted for a password and i enter it. I then get this message:
> mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Connection reset by peer
>
> If I give mount_smbfs the -N switch it makes no difference. The 
> connection keeps getting reset. I can ping the windows machine and the 
> windows machine can browse the samba shares on the FreeBSD machine.
>
> Can anyone offer a helping hand?
>
> Thanks,
> Gareth
>
>
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It should be mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.11 //guest at machine_name/backups 
/mnt/backups.  The machine_name could be the ip, but do you see your 
machine named 192.... when in network neighborhood?  Or is it something 
like windows_box or whatever?