On Friday April 22 2005 4:01 pm, Alan Munday wrote: > Having read a few posts recently I thought I would do some testing. > > Given XP's use of 445 and that I have a couple of networks where they only > have XP clients, I thought I would try setting smb ports to 445 only rather > than that suggested of just specifying 139. > > This has worked well for XP clients with SP2. > > However SP1, and presumably pre-SP1 clients, lose all sight of the NBT > network. Indeed they report an RPC error on start-up. > > Alan
Hmmm. I also configured "smb ports = 445". That has gotten rid of those annoying "getpeername failed" errors, and my mix of XP SP1 and SP2 clients have had no problems. Is there a "correct" or "preferred" setting, or is just "whatever works"? Dimitri -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
