[plug] Samba query (fwd)

[de Vries, Arie]

I was only trying to help Kevin by pointing out the default behaviour of M$,
when a network interface was configured to 'Obtain an IP address
automatically' and there were problems with DHCP.

But if you think I'm wrong, OK, "I'll take my bat and go home"

Regards, Arie de Vries.
08 9491 5193

-----Original Message-----
From: "Leon Brooks" 

> The consequence of this is that each machine will select a random IP
> address. Hence Kevin's problem of unable to ping and 'arp who-has'
messages.

OK, so if I see 169[now there's an appropriate number!].254.*.* packets on
any of my subnets I can deduce that (1) there is a Windows 200 machine
about (hide the women! hide the children! guns! get the guns!); (2) it
hasn't been configured appropriately.

I wonder, does the default Windows 2000... errr... configuration (for lack
of a better word) respond to SMB? That is, can I use nmblookup on such an
IP to find out what it thinks it is called, etc?

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