On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:19, Ross Drummond wrote: > I am not sure if this is possible but can you not set up samba as the > domain controller?
> Then you could respond to all the netbios authentication requests and > allow these hosts to share there drives with all their other mates on > the subnet. What a delightfully naughty idea! How do I resist the temptation? > After all this is a no risk strategy. Those that twig to this will have > to wait for 30 minutes on hold to speak with a Telstra Clear technician > who has a clue. How likely is that? Since I have heard that almost all ISPs are staffed by a symbiotic collection of barely post-pubescent youths and semi-geriatric Ebenezer Scrooges, I suppose that it's asymptotically close to a probability of zero. I hope Our One will demonstrate that it is an exception to the general rule. What are the chances of getting the 172.20.18.55 host/modem sorted out? As of now ( 16:37 ), the log for today says:- From 172.20.18.55 - 10062 packets to udp(68) Apart from the obvious, rather drastic, action of writing to the Internet Product Manager and the Head of Consumer Sales, I wonder how one gets this escalated further up the TelstraClear chain-of-command? > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:56, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Also _many_ NETBIOS connect attempts from many hosts in the local > > class C net. Par for the course I suppose, but it's totally > > un-necessay traffic. -- CS
