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Avoid '-36 errors' when connecting to Win2K servers
Authored by: seandj on Mar 01, '03 06:04:44PM

I believe that this is a bug in the SMB service under OS X. It seems that
the DDE service is being used to resolve the name to the IP address. If
the service isn't running on the remote computer, all you get is an IP
address in the list, and you can't connect. I had disabled the DDE
service on my W2K machine to prevent broadcast chat messages from
coming over the computer. I have not had any problems connecting to
the computer with a Windows machine. Apple is using an outdated
method of connecting to Windows shares and should fix the problem
instead of users having to turn on something on a Windows machine that
is not nessessary. DDE is an outdated method of communcating with
Windows.



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