[WBEL-users] Samba and XP SP2

[Nigel Kendrick]

The firewall is tweakable but I just can't be bothered to spend ages
adjusting it to make things work like they used to (i.e. Samba). I've
turned the firewall off like you suggest anyway but I turn it on for
public wifi points, hotel modem connections and when working via
Bluetooth through my mobile phone - I'm a roving kind of guy!

The only other weirdness (non-Linux) is that my wife has a directory
viewer/manager utility called Treeview Pro and since we installed XP SP2
on her laptop when she does a printout of a directory listing all the
characters on the printout are reversed - i.e.: 'd' looks like 'b' - the
whole document is laid out OK but every character is flipped on its
vertical axis! EXTREMELY disturbing!

-----Original Message-----
From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
[mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Daniel J. Summers
Sent: 16 September 2004 21:55
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Samba and XP SP2


Nigel Kendrick wrote:

>I was having problems using my 3 Samba shares mapped to my WBEL server 
>recently - 2 were very slow and one just refused to connect and if I 
>re-ran the batch file to make the mapping it insisted on trying to map 
>the connection as guest and then failed.
>
>On a hunch, I disabled the XP Service Pack 2 firewall and all's working

>again now.
>
>Having done a google search it seems this is a known problem so does 
>anyone have any insight specific to WBEL?
>  
>
That firewall is something else - I haven't installed SP2 on my wife's 
or my work computers for just that reason.  Can you define specific 
ports to keep open?  Running with the XP firewall disabled isn't really 
that big of a deal, especially if you had your network otherwise secured

before SP2.  Anyway, if you can define specific ports (and the LAN folks

at work indicated that you can), and you want the SP2 firewall, just 
define those ports (not sure which ones those are, but I'm sure Google 
knows) and you should be good to go.


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