On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 19:13 +0000, johnsuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > It seems that the Netbios command "net view \\munro4" issued from a Win XP box > shows up in the Squid cache log, on the munro4 box, as "The request OPTIONS > http://munro4/ is DENIED because it matched ..." > > This is more mysterious because the LAN protocols are Netbios and TCP/IP, not Netbios > over TCP/IP, so there should be no scope for crossover. > > What is happening here? It is possible that Microsoft introduced some XMLRPC mechanisms for Netbios browsing. The OS is picking the proxy configuration and here is the results. Kinkie