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+<chapter id="errors">
+
+<title>Common errors</title>
+
+<sect1>
+<title>Not listening for calling name</title>
+
+<para>
+<programlisting>
+Session request failed (131,129) with myname=HOBBES destname=CALVIN
+Not listening for calling name
+</programlisting>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you get this when talking to a Samba box then it means that your
+global "hosts allow" or "hosts deny" settings are causing the Samba 
+server to refuse the connection. 
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Look carefully at your "hosts allow" and "hosts deny" lines in the
+global section of smb.conf. 
+</para>
+
+<para>
+It can also be a problem with reverse DNS lookups not functioning 
+correctly, leading to the remote host identity not being able to
+be confirmed, but that is less likely.
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1>
+<title>System Error 1240</title>
+
+<para>
+System error 1240 means that the client is refusing to talk
+to a non-encrypting server. Microsoft changed WinNT in service
+pack 3 to refuse to connect to servers that do not support
+SMB password encryption.
+</para>
+
+<para>There are two main solutions:
+<simplelist>
+<member>enable SMB password encryption in Samba. See the encryption part of 
+the samba HOWTO Collection</member>
+
+<member>disable this new behaviour in NT. See the section about 
+Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection
+</member>
+</simplelist>
+
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1>
+<title>smbclient ignores -N !</title>
+
+<para>
+<quote>When getting the list of shares available on a host using the command
+<command>smbclient -N -L</command>
+the program always prompts for the password if the server is a Samba server.
+It also ignores the "-N" argument when querying some (but not all) of our
+NT servers.
+</quote>
+
+<para>
+No, it does not ignore -N, it is just that your server rejected the 
+null password in the connection, so smbclient prompts for a password
+to try again.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+To get the behaviour that you probably want use <command>smbclient -L host -U%</command>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+This will set both the username and password to null, which is
+an anonymous login for SMB. Using -N would only set the password
+to null, and this is not accepted as an anonymous login for most
+SMB servers.
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
+</chapter>