Re: [LUG] Problems with SAMBA/eth0

[Pete Hatton <bramley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 May 2001, Neil Williams wrote:

> Thing is that I need access to a Linux directory via a mapped network drive
> and it is this which fails. HTTP is fine, FTP and Telnet also work without
> the network reload being needed. I can access the internet from either linux
> box via the Windows proxy without problems. It is only the access to the
> SAMBA shares from Network Neighbourhood and the resultant mapping of a
> network drive under Windows/SAMBA. This, I think, relies on IPX (well,
> removing or unbinding IPX certainly disables mapping of network drives).

As far as I remember, Samba uses IP, not IPX.  All the windows boxes
use IP with Netbios over IP enabled.


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