Re: ppp not forwarding broadcast packets?

Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 05:40:50 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 thoth@purplefrog.com wrote:

>> routers per-se should not forward broadcast packets... or bad things
>> might occur (possible variation of smurf attacks, etc).
>
> I get your point. Still, it's inconvenient when you don't have an
>ethernet card for your laptop and you want to SMB-mount that share full of
>MP3s to load up before you hit the road.

/etc/lmhosts or C:\windows\lmhosts

> What doubly sucks is that my Win98 can't access the public read-only
>samba share because of password problems and the EnablePlainTextPassword
>hack doesn't do the trick. But that's no fault of linux.

Use samba 2.0.4b.

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Mike A. Harris                   Linux advocate      GNU advocate
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