Mele20
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Re: Windows File Sharing: Facing The Mystery
This article doesn't address file sharing between XP and 98SE boxes. Why not? I believe that is just as risky as the old 98 way. Most folks (home users at least) want to share between an old machine and a new one each running different OSes. I had to make my 98SE box totally vulnerable in order to share with the XP box. I had all bound to Netbeui but had to abandon that. This is an important issue but ignored in this article. Plus, I don't agree that Steve Gibson has sensationalized this issue. He is right on target. Much more so that the author of this article. I forgot once, after I made my 98SE box vulnerable, and used dial up instead of my usual cable modem behind a router connection. It took about 30 seconds for the 98SE box to be infected. So, I don't agree that Steve Gibson is a hysteric. I'll continue to read his site instead of articles like this one.
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Daniel
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| said by Mele20  :This article doesn't address file sharing between XP and 98SE boxes. I think it does. There are essentially two systems for doing file sharing -- the 9x way, and the "direct hosting" way. As mentioned in the piece, if you have both enabled on the client and you try to contact another box for service, both types of connectivity are attempted.
That's how the old shares with the new.
If it's an XP box trying to share with a 98 machine, for example, and the XP box has NBT enabled, the XP box will send requests both to port 445 and to the NBT ports. Since the 98 box is not listening on 445, it will respond via the old method and communication will ensue.
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