smbclient -M nt_status_bad_network_name error

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I am trying to send a test message (for a test project) from my Ubuntu Virtualbox Guest to my Windows 8 host. I am getting the error nt_status_bad_network_name error.

What I know that works:

I can ping from Host to Guest and vice versa by using computer host name. MSG Service (replace net send) is enabled on Windows 8 side.

NOTE:
For LAN testing purposes, I did disable Windows firewall (thus is how I can ping from Ubuntu to Window host)

So I wonder why I type smbclient -M "computername” in the terminal from the virtualbox guest OS, I get “nt_status_bad_network_name error” when I try to send the message to the Windows host?

Answer

You haven’t put whole command line and smbclient response, so please make sure that "computername" contains heading \\ symbol.

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Source : Link , Question Author : Benjamin Jones , Answer Author : Michael Hampton

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