[ale] XP and Samba

Vaidhy Mayilrangam vaidhy at loonys.net
Mon Dec 10 21:21:22 EST 2001


yes.. but MS windows and Samba do not use tcp/ip.. they use netbios/netbeui
to share resources ..

Vaidhy

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:22:13PM -0500, jeff hubbs wrote:
> But why should you have to enable a separate protocol from TCP/IP for 
> that to work?  NetBEUI really isn't supposed to be used in anything more 
> than a one-office arrangement and, in this day and age when Internet 
> access is pretty much ubiquitous and therefore a TCP/IP requirement 
> exists, there's really no need for NetBEUI anymore at all (for one 
> thing, it's not a routable protocol).
> 
> Vaidhy Mayilrangam wrote:
> 
> >yes they can.. but the catch is that netbeui (sp??) is not installed by
> >default.. Install netbeui (It is under protocols) and then click on
> >network neighbourhood, entire netword , MS network and you will find it..
> >
> >Sometimes, you have to search for the computer name.. 
> >
> >Vaidhy
> >
> >On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:55:03PM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >
> >>Help,
> >>
> >>
> >>Did the SMB protocol get modified so that my Samba server can not
> >>communicate with XP Prof. clients.  It even seems that 98 and XP clients 
> >>can
> >>not communicate to each other.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Chris
> >>
> >>
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