Re: With netbios over tcp disfunctional whats left?


Harry wrote:
>> I've been having a continuing problem getting full use out of winxp's
>> `computer browser' service using `netbios over tcp. Its come to a
>> point where solving that problem seem harder than a full reformat and
>> reinstall.
>>
>>> Anyone interested in the problem can view quite a lengthy thread here
>>> under
>>> `Subject: Problem viewing folder and files over tcp/netbui'
>
> (snippage)

Malke wrote:
> I actually read through this long post twice and still don't know what
> you want.

Well, its pretty clear I'm confused about it too.

> I remember you had a long thread in the networking group but
> not the details, and I'm sorry but I don't want to go searching it out.

I didn't ask nor mean for you to. Like I said it was put there for
any interested party who wanted to know about that problem. And the
thread subject I cited is in this group.

This post is about trying something different from what that thread
was about, which was analyzing and fixing a nagging netbios over tcp
problem.

Here I'm asking what alternatives there are to netbios over tcp.

As I said:

> In this thread I'm asking a different question. Is there a
> comparable networking solution to `My Network Places' (netbios over
> tcp) that I could turn too until I get this solved?


> What are you asking? How to access computers on a network but not
> through Network Places? In case you didn't already get this info, just:

No, and my formulation was pretty cloudy, sorry.

I'm asking how to access computers on a network without involving
netbios over tcp.

> 1. Make a folder on your Desktop and call it something like "Network".
> Double-click this to have it open (not full screen).

Again thanks for the step thru and actually that would and does help
somewhat but since it too is based on the windows netbios protocol
over tcp. It fails for me in the same way but not at the same spot.

That is, at some level of folder hiearachy files and subfolders become
invisible when viewed from another winxp pro machine on the lan. Any
one of 3 others. But again I'm not aiming to rediscuss that here.

There was quite an extensive discussion which you participated in
about it on microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web

Subject: Home lan puzzler

that ended in a sort of dead end or at least no solution was found.

And still another lengthy thread on this group cited above.


Thats why I'm asking in this thread about alternatives to using the
windows protocols with `computer browser' service that underlies
netbios.

And you have answered that too. NFS. I had forgotten all about
that. I've set it up several times between unix machines.

Malke wrote:

> BTW, KDE does not "speak SMB natively". You have to be running Samba
> since SMB is a Windows protocol. For Linux filesystem sharing
> between computers, we use NFS - which you also have to set up.

Yes you are right and again it shows my confusion.

Is it possible or better yet, is it usefull to setup NFS between windows
machines? Have you done or seen it done?


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