Basic Samba Question from Newbie

Firstly my apologies for just kicking the door down and bursting in here with this question. I did try to find a Samba NG but my NS does not seem to carry one.

This is down to my limited understanding, can anyone give me some pointers?
I'm playing with Samba and trying to expand on my networking understanding at
the same time.

The issue I am trying to get my head around is when I try a test connection.
If I use:
smbclient -L //hostname -U Username
I'm prompted for a password as expect, put it in and get a list of shares
on the host:

Domain=[blahblahblah] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
VIDEO SHARED Disk
D3_300GB (E) Disk
LINUXSHARE Disk

Domain=[DISHINGDIRT] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------

Which is fine and dandy. BUT if I issue the same command using the IP address
instead of the host name:
smbclient -L //192.168.1.25 -U User
I get the same as before but with the extra lines:

Domain=[blahblahblah] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
VIDEO SHARED Disk
D3_300GB (E) Disk
LINUXSHARE Disk

session request to 192.168.1.25 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
Domain=[DISHINGDIRT] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------

I'm just wondering why these lines spring up:
session request to 192.168.1.25 failed (Called name not present)
session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)

Any ideas?

.

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