From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 14:43:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA08837 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA08830 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:43:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from craig@localhost) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA18550; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:41:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199610282241.OAA18550@seabass.progroup.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Netbios (Samba) routing across TCP/IP] To: hal@vailsys.com Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:41:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Craig Shaver" Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3274D02E.2BF4@vailsys.com> from "Hal Snyder" at Oct 28, 96 09:24:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > Has any work been done or is anybody currently doing work > > > on software that will let FreeBsd and/or Samba route netbios > > > between LAN's or across the internet. > > NetBIOS is an API designed for the PC. Implementations exist for > various protocols, including TCP/IP, IPX, and NetBEUI. NBT (NetBIOS > over TCP, RFC's 1001/1002) comes standard with Win95 and NT. > > > There is no extra work required. It works as long as you can make the > > TCP/IP hosts known to the participating machines. Make to host known > > to your DNS server and enter the name in LMHOSTS or HOSTS (?). > > Or run a WINS server on the Internet, assuming you're not behind a > firewall that blocks TCP and UDP port 137. I think there are public > WINS servers on the Internet as well, not sure how they do > registration. One site is at winserve.com. > I believe samba comes with something called "nmbd" that you can run as a daemon (or under inetd) that acts like a wins server. At least I think it does that. I am running it now, and I did not get my pc's to recognize the samba server until I set it up as a daemon. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088