OK well there doesn't seem to be a big problem as far as I can tell. I have windows 2000 running on qemu, on a (gentoo) linux host.
I am using user-mode networking, with qemu getting the ip address 10.0.2.15. The host machine is 192.168.1.10 on a lan with windows and linux machines. I posted about the difficulties of doing smb browsing across subnet boundaries yesterday. As I said then the problem can be got around if you specify the IP address to browse to. In win2k in qemu, I start explorer (windows exp not internet exp) and can put the IP address of a computer on my lan in thus: \\192.168.1.11 Up pops the username and password dialog and bang, I am browsing the smb shares on that machine. The special case is if I want to access the host machine - then I have to use its qemu friendly alternative IP address of 10.0.2.2. So, it seems it is possible to access other smb machines on your lan if you specify them by ip address. And tomorrow I will post the screenshot to prove it!
