From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 10:36:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3561314CF3 for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 10:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id KAA09532; Sun, 9 May 1999 10:34:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 10:34:55 -0700 (PDT) From: rick hamell To: John K Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Not able to see freebsd machines on NT machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On a side note: > I heard somewhere that the Mircosoft IP stack includes NetBios informatio= n > in it=B4s TCP/IP headers ( //Computernames and so on) and that this is wh= y > you can "browse the network" even if there=B4s no NetBeui on your=20 > windows box. =09If there is, I don't think it's terribly reliable. :) I unluckily=20 still end up putting NetBIOS on if I need to share resources between=20 Windows machines. I tried to share with just TCP/IP but when you go to=20 network neighborhood it's hit or miss if it'll see anything. Once you've=20 actually got things connected it seems a little more reliable.=20 =09Now, what I'd like to know is there any was I can kill=20 Windows95's keep alive packets. I.e. when I have a dial-up connection=20 (ppp with the -auto and -alias options,) with a time set up, Windows 9X=20 seems to ping the network and keeps it alive. :( =09=09=09=09=09Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message