PISED OFF about cifs mounts wguest logons do not work

Ignoramus28822

I have no idea unfortunately..... and I'm new to linux, and I'm trying to learn about it's networking, so I seek out and follow these threads for tidbits of info - a couple of thoughts; CIFS = Common Internet File System (or SAMBA(?))

To keep any interested parties informed; wasn't it you who had a recent thread concerning Samba? just curious, not accusatory -- and yet, if so, it would help others to help you.

WAG; I was just reading about some ZEROCONF stuff in another thread around here; wanted-needed-necessary(?) for ease of *interoperability* between diff proprietary systems and talking IP to each other across WANs(?). I think Microsnot's version is NetBIOS(?). More general info about Zeroconf;

Once I heard about this Zeroconf stuff, I decided to investigate on my own boxen; Synaptic tells me that I donothave it installed...atleast not on my Debian 3.1r1 Sarge (2.4.27-2-386 kernel)

I see *Zcip* is the name of the package using Synaptic (or Apt-cache) which has this to say; ======================================== gets an IP addr by partially implementing IETF zeroconf protocols zcip obtains an IP address without requiring manual buttignment or a DHCP server. It uses the ad-hoc link-local IPv4 auto-configuration trick. ========================================

Dependencies; $ apt-cache depends zcip zcip Depends: libc6 Depends: libnet0 Depends: libpcap0.8

Oh well, I'm probably just blabbering -- apologies if so -- I still have a lot to read and learn :-) I wonder if Zcip is an abbreviation for "Zero-Conf-Common Internet Protocol"