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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: NETBIOS Unix Server info.... :-)
Date: 24 Nov 1993 04:56:34 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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Message-ID: <2cupi2$8ba@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu
Well, well, well... didn't anticipate the responses I've gotten
on this...
Thought I'd better post before anyone got mad at me. :-)
I would have posted earlier, but have been super busy at work.
Basically:
Host yaouk.anu.edu.au
Location: /pub/nbserver
FILE -rw-r--r-- 24669 Jan 15 1992 server-10.tar.Z
Before everyone swamps the line to Australia... I've uploaded it
to freebsd.cdrom.com in 'incoming/Freebsd/smb-server.tar.gz' and
to sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu in 'pub/incoming/smb-server.tar.gz'
PLEASE get it from one of these if you're in the States!
(I don't know which would be better for Europe/elsewhere)
Some basic info:
This is a NetBIOS over TCP/IP implementation. It currently *requires*
TCP/IP on the PC, as well as a NetBIOS (over IP) driver.
Currently Microsoft has what you need available via FTP. It's in
'advsys/msclient' I believe. *NOTE* Microsoft's license agreement
*MAY* specifically forbid use of their client without a Microsoft
server!! I have NT, NTAS, and Windows for Workgroups so I don't feel
I'm violating it, but *YOU* may... :-) :-) :-)
I have it working on NetBSD v0.9+ and on SunOS v4.1.3. I have so far
only used the LAN Manager DOS client over TCP/IP. It seems to work
rather well and is pretty fast. I did have a problem with running
norton's sysinfo.exe and ncd.exe against it, but reading/writing
files was not a problem. Presumably the Windows or Windows for
Workgroups clients will work. I couldn't get NT to talk to it, but
I also didn't spend much time on it. I would imagine that it would
work ok if I only bound the TCP/IP NetBIOS (NBT) drivers to the
NIC.
Anyway, good luck! I'd be interested in hearing about any upgrades
etc, that anyone makes/finds. I haven't tried contacting the author
as I have been too busy.
-Andrew
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