[Samba] Firewall piercing - The Specified network name is no longer available.

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:11 -0500, JLB wrote:
> Please read my points on this sort of "solution" in the past. The whole
> REASON I want to use Plain Vanilla SMB is so I can walk up to ANY Windoze
> machine on the entire flippin' Internet and go:
> 
> Start
> Run
> \\IP_ADDRESS\sharename
> (username)
> (password)
> 
> POOF.
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and if you do that - someone else will 'poof' that machine before you
can do it
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> 
> If I have to install anything, the whole point is moot.
> 
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seems like an idea that was DOA - moot is probably besides the point

Craig