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smbclient wants a netbios name, not an IP address.  You need to put the
netbios name of your windows 98 box after the -L.  If the name won't
resolve, you can specify the IP address with -I, but you still need the
name.  E.g.

smbclient -L foo -I 192.168.1.107 -U cfowler

HTH,
Jason
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