samba - Mar 2005 - XP Home client problems.

Hi,
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I have been trying for  2 frustrating weeks to get my XP Home machine
to talk to the Samba server on my SuSE 9.2 Linux box. Described below
is the crux of the problem.

When I do an smbclient on the Linux box I can see the Windows machine
listed. However, when I do a net view on the Windows XP Home machine I
do not see the Samba box. Also, I get a System 1 error on the XP
machine if the XP is not the Local Master Browser and, if it is only
the XP machine is visible in the output of the net view.
I have removed all firewall services, enabled cleartext password in XP
and enabled guest access and no encryption in Samba. Also, I have
disabled the firewall on the Linux box.

I don't know whether this will be of any use in debugging, When I do a
net use on the XP box, and monitor the IP flow, I see traffic destined
to port 80 on the Linux box from the XP box.

I got the setup to work, however, after a reboot of the XP box I am
back to the square one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Venkata.

I can't comment on most of your issue, but for this one I do have some 
advice:
>I don't know whether this will be of any use in debugging, When I do a
>net use on the XP box, and monitor the IP flow, I see traffic destined
>to port 80 on the Linux box from the XP box.
>  
>
I can't remember exactly what the proper term is for this, but it is the 
webclient service in XP doing that.  It can cause some performance 
problems if not dealt with, so you have two basic options. 
1. Disable the webclient service on the XP box.  This stops the requests 
entirely.
2. Set up a web server on the linux box.  This provides something that 
will give an explicit no when the XP machine comes looking for data 
rather than waiting for a timeout.  I usually do this one because it's 
quicker for me to set up a basic web server than turn off every client 
in the network.

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