From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 07:16:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA00338 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 07:16:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA00333 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 07:16:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA14923 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:28:28 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar (jaguar.vale.com [204.117.217.146]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA26079 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:14:37 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3274D02E.2BF4@vailsys.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:24:30 -0600 From: Hal Snyder Reply-To: hal@vailsys.com Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: Netbios (Samba) routing across TCP/IP] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.