[CS-FSLUG] Curious about Linux networks

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

Have you tried going to the interface and disabling File/Printer Sharing
and Windows networking? Just uncheck the box in the properties. I think
that will do it.

JSR/

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[mailto:Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Ed Hurst
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 1:58 PM
To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Curious about Linux networks

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:55:25 -0600, Tim Young <Tim.Young at LightSys.org>  
wrote:

> [Y]ou can get all sorts of broadcast traffic that causes
> all sorts of havoc with network switches.  SMB uses broadcast packets
> (that go to all computers, on the network, so they go to all ports on
a
> switch) for finding the name of computers on the network and
> "browsemaster" election.  Both of these occur fairly regularly.

This is the question I've had for some time now: How do you get WinXP to

"shutup" and quit broadcasting for a Samba share?

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