Re: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread Gareth Davies
- Original Message - From: Jim Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John E. Malmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:24 AM Subject: Re: NetBEUI as main protocol On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 08:26 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: The only advantage

Re: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread Jim Morris
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 03:24 AM, Gareth Davies wrote: Not sure what this thread is about exactly but if I catch the drift correctly you may well find this useful: http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ Thanks - good resource if you need a boot floppy to get on the network. However,

RE: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread Jason Hihn
Thanks for all your help everyone, not just John. Indeed it is a small network, around 20 computers that this box serves, and the NetBEUI traffic is light. I still sort-of disagree with the no security advantage statement though. While I do know of NetBEUI exploits, IMHO it is still a good

RE: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread Jim Morris
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 08:42, Jason Hihn wrote: Up until the other day we didn't have an internet-visible, Unix-based host behind the router. We do now, so that is a concern of mine more than ever. It sounds to me like you are relying on the ISP's router to protect you from the Internet. And

RE: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread Jason Hihn
Good comments, all of them. I hate to say it, but it really comes down to the fact that you are trying to hide behind a protocol, instead of doing a proper firewall for your LAN. No offense intended None is taken. *I* did not set it up this way, and I had thought of some of the very same

Re: Samba connecting to NT PDC

2002-12-10 Thread John H Terpstra
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin, 1) You did create a machine account (for an NT Workstation or Server) using the Server Manager on the NT4 Domain? Joining the domain will NOT work unless you do. 2) Try: smbpasswd -j lister -r cat -Uadministrator and when

Re: smbwrapper/smbsh is now working for Linux 2.4

2002-12-10 Thread jra
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:27:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have smbwrapper and smbsh working on Debian/woody with the Linux 2.4 kernel and the default C library: libc-2.2.5.so. There is a problem that rears its ugly head with a few programs (segmentation violation, presumably due

runaway processes in 3.0a20

2002-12-10 Thread Bradley W. Langhorst
I just installed the debian a20 packages (thanks steve and eloy) i'm posting to technical because it's about an alpha releas Once or twice a day i have to kill runaway processes (-9 required) they seem to as much cpu as is available I just saw one client with three connections to the server 1

Re: smbwrapper/smbsh is now working for Linux 2.4

2002-12-10 Thread Derrell . Lipman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:27:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have smbwrapper and smbsh working on Debian/woody with the Linux 2.4 kernel and the default C library: libc-2.2.5.so. Yes, I'm interested - please post patches. Pressure of other things has made

Re: smbwrapper/smbsh is now working for Linux 2.4

2002-12-10 Thread Derrell . Lipman
Dan Kegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a user, I welcome alternatives to smbfs. Patch has been posted. (I'm also looking forward to trying out http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html) I did minimal testing of it. It seems to work fine, as long as you don't need to access anything

Re: smbwrapper/smbsh is now working for Linux 2.4

2002-12-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:54:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:27:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have smbwrapper and smbsh working on Debian/woody with the Linux 2.4 kernel and the default C library: libc-2.2.5.so. Yes, I'm interested - please

MSLinux!?!?!?

2002-12-10 Thread Esh, Andrew
Title: MSLinux!?!?!? Microsoft to offer Linux software? In a major strategy shift, Microsoft Corp. will introduce software based on the Linux open source operating system in 2004 ... (Copyrighted article, or I'd post it. Here's a link: )

RE: MSLinux!?!?!?

2002-12-10 Thread Ryan Benner
Title: MSLinux!?!?!? I noticed that myself earlier today. Quite interesting. Ryan -Original Message-From: Esh, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:20 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: MSLinux!?!?!? Microsoft to offer Linux software? In a

RE: MSLinux!?!?!?

2002-12-10 Thread Ulf Bertilsson
Title: MSLinux!?!?!? Do we die from an world war III nukewar or M$ crapcode in good systems in near future ? How do we patch this ? -- Ulf This message might not be written by me. Sue /dev/nul -Original Message-From: Ryan Benner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday,

Re: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread Steven French
I noticed references to interesting sounding netbeui patches for Linux kernel from Procom at: http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~acme/patches/wip/ Based on the official kernel status looks like they won't make 2.5 though. Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM

Re: Bug in reply_write_and_X?

2002-12-10 Thread Conrad Minshall
At 8:14 PM -0800 12/9/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:10:00PM -0800, Conrad Minshall wrote: A local filesystem has to return EFBIG to Samba (per POSIX write system call def'n) and in the Samba source I'm looking at EFBIG isn't used anywhere relevant to a WRITE_ANDX, in

RE: Samba connecting to NT PDC

2002-12-10 Thread Esh, Andrew
(Please take this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it's not a development issue.) Try defining the IP address for "CAT" in your /etc/lmhosts file. Your WINS server may not be supplying good information. Also, try to ping CAT at its IP address. It doesn't appear to be reachable from where the Samba

Re: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread John E. Malmberg
Christopher R. Hertel wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:26:24PM -0500, John E. Malmberg wrote: Jason Hihn wrote: I've a need for Samba to work over NetBEUI. We have a file server here that only speaks that way to bar out TCP-based hackers, There is a popular misconception that you can use

Re: NetBEUI as main protocol

2002-12-10 Thread John E. Malmberg
Jason Hihn wrote: Good comments, all of them. I hate to say it, but it really comes down to the fact that you are trying to hide behind a protocol, instead of doing a proper firewall for your LAN. No offense intended None is taken. *I* did not set it up this way, and I had thought of