Simba will not work behind certain cable modems  It actually has nothing to
do with the modem but has to do with the provider.  We use SAMBA at work
and have the same problem.  (SAMBA and SIMBA are both based on the SMB
protocol.)

It really has nothing to do with the OSI layers as Dave suggested in an
earlier post.  It is a well written program.   It has to do with
authentication and what kind of firewall your provider is using.  That is
why it will work with some cable modems and not with others.

Depending on how the SAMBA/SIMBA server is set up it may try to
authenticate you by trying to directly connect to your machine. (I don't
know the specifics, but there are many books and articles on SAMBA out
there that can give you plenty of information.) If you are behind a
firewall this may or may not work.  Funny thing is that in my case I could
connect at one point to our SAMBA server at work.  Then my Cable Modem ISP
re-enabled the firewall and it would not work.  We looked in the logs and
could see our server trying to get to my machine at home by IP address and
failing.  We tried to ping my IP address from work and couldn't (We were
previously able to.)

In my case it doesn't work.

-Rob


At 05:17 PM 8/21/99 -0600, you wrote:
>    I have cable modem and Simba does work for me so that is wrong info
>as far as I am concerned.

> Thank you for the information about the software
> Simba. But one thing I did not understand; Simba does
> not work with cable modems, and that is a  bad sign.
> What are layers and division of responsibilities? Are
> you able to explain me that?

> That's a bad sign;
> > well-designed protocols are built in layers and
> > follow pretty strict rules
> > about division of responsibilities, and a
> > file-transport protocol has no
> > *obvious* business caring what sort of connection to
> > the network you have.



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