[plug] Samba query (fwd)

[Richard Sharpe]

At 07:13 PM 9/21/00 +1100, you wrote:
>I don't know enough about SMB to answer how W2k responds.
>
>Maybe Richard Sharpe who is a SMB expert can supply an answer?

I have seen this sort of thing happen with Win98 and perhaps Win2K when the
DHCP server is not available.

Because SMB over NetBIOS over TCP relies on TCP, and uses broadcasts or
WINS for address resolution and uses broadcasts for browsing functionality,
not much is likely to work if a client comes up in a different subnet to
the server.

There is a lot of material describing the actual protocols etc in Special
Edition, Using Samba, which may help to understand this stuff.

>Regards, Arie de Vries.
>08 9491 5193
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leon Brooks 
>"de Vries, Arie" wrote:
>> 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.
>
>You _are_ being helpful. All of this Windows bizarrity is useful stuff I
>didn't know before. Do you know if W2k responds normally in SMB when
>it's semi-configured like this?
>
>
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba