From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 14 20:37:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA10882 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA10872 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:37:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01216; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:04:04 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710150334.NAA01216@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Charles Mott cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBIOS across a masquerading gateway In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:49:53 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 13:04:04 +0930 From: Mike Smith 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). Eeep. It should. > 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. Wise move. 8) > So I have a few questions: > > (1) Can Windows networking work over an > IP based wide area network? Yes. There are some restrictions relating to browsability and the vagaries of the browse mechanism, but if you are using the DNS for WinNS you can map by name. (Irrelevant anecdote: We are looking at providing shares off a BSD system and associated network in one country location to another several hundred kilometres away, using mpd and some faith; testing looks like it'll work just fine.) > (2) If so, can such networking work across > the existing FreeBSD masquerading mechanism > in natd and ppp -alias? I believe so. The smbclient program manages to access such servers from an arbitrarily-allocated port on the host system, and I don't see any way that host/port information could be encoded in the NB-on-TCP datagram. I would expect that it should "just work". mike