Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 13:56:30 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'rick hamell' <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Not able to see FreeBSD machines on NT machine Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105879@site2s1>
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Well, as I said before, I use only TCP/IP and have no browsing problems at all. Maybe it's a configuration error, especially where samba is concerned, as it can be touchy at times. As far as keep-alives, you may want to run tcpdump on the unix machine and see just that the packets are, and then filter them from causing keep-alives or dialups in your ppp.conf. I'm willing to bet it's either an odd DNS lookup, or a SMB packet that is being sent over the link for some strange reason. I deny anything going over ports 137-139 over my link to the outside world, and about once a every week or two there will be a blocked packet or two that one of the machines tried to send over the link. Don't ask me why because I have no idea. Keep in mind that FreeBSD doesn't even speak NetBEUI (or IPX/SPX for the most part) and therefore actually causes more problems for the samba browsing when you have it installed. Windows likes to default to NetBEUI and when it can't contact the samba server via NetBEUI (which it never will since it's not supported) it then has to fall back to TCP/IP. Windows doesn't always do this gracefully though. As a matter of fact, the company where I work runs strictly TCP/IP and there are thousands of computers on this network. Browsing works fine. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: rick hamell [SMTP:hamellr@dsinw.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 1:35 PM > To: John K > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Not able to see freebsd machines on NT machine > > > > On a side note: > > I heard somewhere that the Mircosoft IP stack includes NetBios > information > > in itīs TCP/IP headers ( //Computernames and so on) and that this is why > > you can "browse the network" even if thereīs no NetBeui on your > > windows box. > > If there is, I don't think it's terribly reliable. :) I unluckily > still end up putting NetBIOS on if I need to share resources between > Windows machines. I tried to share with just TCP/IP but when you go to > network neighborhood it's hit or miss if it'll see anything. Once you've > actually got things connected it seems a little more reliable. > Now, what I'd like to know is there any was I can kill > Windows95's keep alive packets. I.e. when I have a dial-up connection > (ppp with the -auto and -alias options,) with a time set up, Windows 9X > seems to ping the network and keeps it alive. :( > > Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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