From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 18 20:48:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA11339 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 20:48:01 -0800 Received: from SIRIUS.COM (earth.sirius.com [140.174.229.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id UAA11333 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 20:47:59 -0800 Received: from slip220.sirius.com by SIRIUS.COM (NX5.67e/NX3.14M) id AA09530; Wed, 18 Jan 95 20:47:35 -0800 Message-Id: <9501190447.AA09530@SIRIUS.COM> X-Sender: rsoles@sirius.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 20:53:32 -0800 To: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen), roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) From: rsoles@SIRIUS.COM (Roger L Soles) Subject: Re: NETBEUI for FreeBSD? Any docs? Cc: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen), hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@cs.weber.edu Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Samba is SMB (Server Message Blocks) over TCP/IP -- and Microsoft will be happy to give you a 32 Bit TCP/IP stack for WFWG -- just ftp it from there site (FTP.MICROSOFT.COM). NetBEUI is a brain dead transport... and since you'd probably use b-mode (simplistic) it'd eat your bandwidth up with it's broadcasts quick... If you want to talk to Unix, use TCP/IP -- WFWG supports it, it's a 0 K foot print for conventional memory, it's free, and it works... BTW: NetBIOS is an API, not a transport, not a file sharing protocol... At 08:02 AM 1/18/95 -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: >>>>>> "Ollivier" == Ollivier ROBERT writes: > > >> My understanding is that NetBEUI is rather simplistic, > >> non-routable, but it would be useful in communicating with PC's > >> running wfw that for some reason don't want TCP/IP. > > Ollivier> If you want ot share printers and disks, I'd suggest >(samba). > > >Samba won't solve the problem. Samba is NETBIOS over TCP/IP. I'm talking >a whole different protocol, NETBEUI, 'ala WFW/LanManager in it's simplest >form. > > //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Roger L Soles // PO Box 280785 // San Francisco, CA 94124-0785