Samba not working or showing windows shares

[madsurfer01]

Hi
Have just installed suse10.1 linux and am trying to use samba to see windows shares on the network. When I try "smbclient -L localhost -U%" the terminal just sits and does nothing unless ^c is pressed upon which the command finishes. have done a ps ax which shows me both smbd and nmbd are running, also when I try smb restart I get a warning that daemon already running. I have also noted that when a smb stop is performed then even though it has said it is done if you run ps ax smbd is still running.
Please help me with this
Regards
Adrian

 

[John Lewis]

When I try "smbclient -L localhost -U%" the terminal just sits and does nothing unless ^c is pressed upon which the command finishes

This sounds normal. You are indicating that a password will follow (after the %), but you are not giving one. Better for testing to leave the -U off and supply a password when prompted.

Not familiar with the Suse scripts, so I can't comment on the start|restart|stop issues, but might speculate that perhaps you are not running these commands as root?

Finally, you stated that when you press ^c the smbclient finishes. What happens? Are you not seeing the expected output? What kind of output do you get?