Samba ne ideas how to this??

Hi,

I am new to samba and linux in general. I have this small problem.

My Knoppix box is in a big college LAN we friends use Winpopup to communicate with each other so, recently I feel isolated coz I cant message them nor receive them coz we have a strange network structure that hides the workgroups and Net Bios names of very large sections of our netwrok from individiual system so simple

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smbclient -M HOSTNAME

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doesnt work for me. I need to specify the exact ip address and I tried suggested

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smbclient -I -M 10.110.8.110

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But it doesnt work as it terminates without taking message input from me :(

Ne ideas how I can atleast start sending messages???