Re: Answer found re failure of NET USE LPT1 to redirect LPT1

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Flash wrote:
> This the way the GUI calls the MS proprietary networking protocol, called
> SMB (server message block), which runs on top of NetBIOS as a transport
> protocol (which MS took over from IBM in the last mellennium).
> Even without SMB (client for MS networks), you can still run TCP/IP and go
> surfing on the Internet, and use other applications such as FTP for file
> transfer, emails, etc. Deactivating it deactivates only the MS proprietary
> functions.
Interesting. The flashlight search works . . . about half the time. So
maybe I should deactivate it, and just use permanent icons for the (two)
LAN locations I go to.

Thanks.

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx