Alisdair Kelly
  
 
  
 
 
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Posted: June 11 2004,18:55 | 
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To all: I've recently setup DSL .071 on one of my machines on home SOHO. I've discovered that if you are going to install Samba to share files and/or printers with a W2K "server" you may run into conexxion problems.
  About a year ago, there was a big to-do about shutting port 445 on Windows XP/W2K boxes for security purposes. Back then, I did just that, closed that port via a reghack. SAMBA requires that port for connecting to XP/W2K boxes.
  If you run smbtree from your DSL box and get a failure message of name not found, suspect that you have some how closed the port. I'm in the middle of looking back at the closing hack so I can undo it.
  HtH. 
  -------------- Cheers, Alisidair
  (or you  can call me Al)
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