[ale] [semi OT] No CIFS data

[James P. Kinney III]

Is it possible for a network switch (a "dumb" one, i.e. not managed) to
not pass Windows network browser data? 

Scenario: New 24 port network switch. Several Win2K machines and some
Linux servers. Everybody can ping everybody. None of the W2K machines
can "see" any other windows box unless NETBUI (BLECH!) is installed. 

I've seen and worked on loads of M$ crap networks that can do the
browsing with nothing but TCP/IP on W2K machines. 

I'm spending the evening with Samba 3 docs for more testing tomorrow.
I'm stumped on this.

A possibly related side note: nbstat.exe is nowhere to be found on any
machine. Even the newly installed W2K machine.
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