From: Jeffrey Watts (watts@jayhawks.net)
Date: 03/18/00


Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 05:45:37 -0600
From: Jeffrey Watts <watts@jayhawks.net>
Subject: Re: kclug - Test from my Linux box . . . .
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003180536130.11630-100000@violet.jayhawks.net>

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Randy Rathbun wrote:

> Check your protocols... NT likes to use netbios while Win9x likes to
> use netbeui. Make them both use the same protocol and you will be in
> bidness (as you can probably tell, I have to deal with this problem a
> lot!) Be sure to send them over TCP/IP so that Samba can see them.

Okies, this is a FAQ, but worth restating -- NETBEUI is a _protocol_, much
like TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. NetBIOS is a _programming interface_. In
Windows, there are NetBIOS interfaces for NETBEUI, TCP/IP, and IPX/SPX.

SMB uses the NetBIOS interface. In Windows, you can use SMB over TCP/IP,
NETBEUI, or IPX/SPX. In Linux, Samba only communicates using NetBIOS over
TCP/IP. The other protocols suck anyway, so it's no big loss.

Enjoy.
J.

o-----------------------------------o
| Jeffrey Watts |
| watts@jayhawks.net o-------------------------------------------o
| Systems Programmer | "We should not be building surveillance |
| Network Systems Management | technology into [Internet] standards. |
| Sprint Communications | Law enforcement was not supposed to be |
o----------------------------| easy. Where it is easy, it's called a |
                             | police state." |
                             | -- Jeff Schiller, IETF |
                             o-------------------------------------------o

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