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...had to listen to port 137 because W95 send answer to name resolution always on this port (it's s..k a lot). With the help of option SOCK_REUSEADDR, every thing was fine (I stayed near nmbd whitout disturbing it) but came the new version of the kernel ... Try as root to do 'nmblookup -r -A IpOfWindows95Computer'. It works with 2.0 kernel but not with new 2.2 serie (2.2.12 for me actually). Why ? The developpers of the kernel made the (security) choice of not allowing a process to listen to socket of other. I think it's a good idea but there are programs that use the ability of shared socket betwee...