[ale] [semi OT] No CIFS data

[Chris Coleman]

Yes this should work with only TCP/IP installed. We do it all the time. How
are the Windows nodes configured? I mean are they configured to look for a
WINS server or to send broadcast messages? I'm not sure of the exact
terminology: B-nodes, H-nodes or something like that. 

Just thinking out loud.  Can you use find computer to locate a share on a
machine by name or IP?

Chris Coleman

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James P.
Kinney III
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 7:20 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] [semi OT] No CIFS data

Is it possible for a network switch (a "dumb" one, i.e. not managed) to
not pass Windows network browser data? 

Scenario: New 24 port network switch. Several Win2K machines and some
Linux servers. Everybody can ping everybody. None of the W2K machines
can "see" any other windows box unless NETBUI (BLECH!) is installed. 

I've seen and worked on loads of M$ crap networks that can do the
browsing with nothing but TCP/IP on W2K machines. 

I'm spending the evening with Samba 3 docs for more testing tomorrow.
I'm stumped on this.

A possibly related side note: nbstat.exe is nowhere to be found on any
machine. Even the newly installed W2K machine.
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