Samba over IPv6 (was: samba problem)

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Sat Jan 10 22:01:23 GMT 2004


Luke Howard wrote:
> 
> >Samba does not support IPv6.  We are yet to explore what Microsoft
> >does with IPv6, and the portability issues have caused us to simply
> >drop it, last time a patch was proposed.
> 
> IIRC (and I may not RC), MS are doing SMB over TCP/IP (port 443) for
> IPv6, no NBT.

I have not had any chance to play with this but I have to believe you're
correct here.  We are planning on doing a lot of playing with IPv6 at the
office some time this year.  I hope to have some better idea after that.

Chris -)-----

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