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@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Windows NT in the chapter "Portability" of the samba HOWTO collection</TD
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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."</SPAN
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>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.</P
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>To get the behaviour that you probably want use <B
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>smbclient -L host -U%</B
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>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.</P
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