Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:41:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Craig Shaver" <craig@ProGroup.COM> To: hal@vailsys.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Netbios (Samba) routing across TCP/IP] Message-ID: <199610282241.OAA18550@seabass.progroup.com> In-Reply-To: <3274D02E.2BF4@vailsys.com> from "Hal Snyder" at Oct 28, 96 09:24:30 am
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> > > > 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
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