Re: forwarding udp over tcp with zebedee

Magnus Wedberg wrote:
>> Are you managing to do SMB tunneling with XP connecting to a local
>> copy of Zebedee, if so, how. I've ended up relying on a win2K machine
>> still being around to do SMB traffic, connecting to 127.0.0.X (where x
>>     
>>> 1).
>>>       
>
> Yeah, absolutely, no problem. As I said, you might have a problem 
> connecting to local loopback addresses (127.0.0.x) -- it's easier to 
> install the loopback adapter, bind a "real" ip to it, and connect. 
> There the trick is to disable File and Printer sharing on that 
> adapter -- also, you may have to turn off Netbios over TCP/IP in the 
> WINS tab on the advanced properties.
>
> If you try using 127.0.0.x you will nowadays bump into all sorts of 
> funky behaviour -- you'll have to install a non-standard MS patch to 
> restore functionality, namely
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884020
> and also might have to disable SMB listening on port 445 with a 
> suspicious registry hack. Much better to use a loopback adapter in my 
> opinion. 
>  
>   
Fantastic, I've got it working with the loopback adapter. I'd tried in 
the past with the patch, but gave up,  due to weird things happening.

Thanks,
Ian.


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