-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Active Accounts wrote: > Well, I know this is getting off topic... and I'd like to understand the > whole windows networking thing as well. I've also seem some strangeness > with that, but chalked it up to my lack of understanding and, of course, > windows funky behavior - sometimes it never works right until you've > rebooted a couple times. > The SMB protocol can be funky. Likely the original problem had to do with netbios names not resolving. I have never played with virtual box but it may be breaking broadcast traffic. I seriously doubt that SMB/CIFs was broken, just your name resolution.
Just a tip, you can put the names of your windows machines along with their IPs into your /etc/hosts file. You can also open windows shares with //ip/share. Relying on the flaky "network" thingy is not the best idea. This even breaks under various windows versions. Of course, if you are so inclined you can set up DNS for your LAN, but that probably does not interest most "normal" people :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI9Z00wRXgH3rKGfMRAi29AKCHOEC63b5e77nNBBLah23nPcrGHACeIKUI 2/cJDEQrmT8pqbCnfTOiiQA= =lWXC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users