From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 14 19:50:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA07900 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:50:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from srv.net (snake.srv.net [199.104.81.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA07894 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (dialin2.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.254.102]) by srv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA32430 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:50:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:49:53 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: NetBIOS across a masquerading gateway Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I don't know if this is quite a -hackers question, but I wanted to access the expertise in this group. I have received an inquiry about whether it is possible for NetBIOS over TCP/IP to work through a masquerading gateway (e.g. natd or ppp -alias). Normally, when confronted with setting up Windows for Workgroups, I hold my nose shut and execute whatever mouse clicks and keystrokes seem to get things working, but without understanding or remembering the slightest bit about Microsoft networking. So I have a few questions: (1) Can Windows networking work over an IP based wide area network? (2) If so, can such networking work across the existing FreeBSD masquerading mechanism in natd and ppp -alias? (3) If many-to-one IP masquerading is not presently compatible with Microsoft networking, is it at least conceptually possible? Or is it somehow logically impossible? -- Charles Mott