[Samba] WinXP Client with Samba 2.2.3a PDC

[John Benedetto]

--On Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:23 AM +0100 "Homann, Mathias" 
<Mathias.Homann at airbus.dasa.de> wrote:

> BTW2, found it necessary to apply the very same regpatch on Win2k SP2,
> too.

Just FYI -
I have NOT had to do this on any W2K SP2 boxes currently connecting to our 
test Samba 2.2.2 server.

> (found it while ethersniffing the connection when my XP couldn't find
> its PDC)
> It tries to find the PDC by talking HTTP-Like to some very strange
> multicast address ON PORT 80!!! After that, it talks the same HTTP-like
> gibberish to the address of PDC obtained from wins, also on port 80!!
> Guess what the apache on my PDC thought about that?

Has this only been *1* box, or many?  No one else on the list has talked of 
this strange behavior on port 80.  (I guess I am asking if this behavior 
has been reproducible?)

- john