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From: bob@comlab.gtri.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: [NETBIOS] Anyone with NetBIOS Unix code? Or SMB?
Date: 19 Nov 1993 18:29:36 GMT
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Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote:
> I'm looking for a free/pd NetBIOS implementation for Unix.
^^^^^^^^^
and Paul Rossington writes:
> BTW, from the people I've spoken to in the Unix community about this the
> response has generally been of the form - "NetBIOS? That's a dodgy IBM
> protocol for DOS machines isn't it? It's not coming anywhere near my
> machine...
Since Mr. Gillham specifically asked for a *free* NetBIOS and/or SMB
implementation I didn't reply.
However, there are at least two commercial vendors of Unix SMB servers,
Syntax and Performance Technology. Syntax (isn't that what Clinton wants
to put on cigarettes?) even has a general purpose Unix NetBIOS implementation
product. I believe protocols that the Syntax currently supports with their
NetBIOS are TCP/IP, OSI, and NetBEUI.
Since NetBIOS isn't a protocol per se but rather a programming interface,
I believe your Unix community contacts may have mispoken. Might I suggest
better answers could be found from better informed sources.
Bob
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