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From: ngps@nova.np.ac.sg (Ng Pheng Siong)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NETBIOS Unix Server info....  :-)
Date: 28 Nov 1993 08:56:25 +0800
Organization: Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
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In article <2d6jho$j35@u.cc.utah.edu>,
A Wizard of Earth C <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>The port 137 isn't a broadcaster, as far as I can tell -- it's TCP.  Port
>138 is supposed to be a UDP port, but it's for datagram rather than
>virtual circuit use of the server... from my /etc/services:

From RFC100[12]: NetBios name service listens on both TCP & UDP port 137.
UDP port 138 is for NetBios datagram service, and TCP port 139 for session
service.

I have _just_ begun work on an RFC NetBios implementation for *BSD -
I'm using FreeBSD now - and am working on the name service. My eventual
aim is to implement an SMB client.  

Unfortunately my FreeBSD machine just went belly-up from a massive IDE drive
failure. (No, shouldn't be the software - the drive was having problems prior
to FreeBSD's installation. ;)

If anyone else is working on this, I'm interested in hearing from you.
NetBios-over-TCP/IP is in RFC 1001/1002. SMB specs can be found in
lanman.gatech.edu:~/lanman. (When you ftp in, you're landed at "incoming."
Do a "cd ../lanman".)

Cheers.

- PS
-- 
Ng Pheng Siong * ngps@np.ac.sg * npngps@solomon.technet.sg
Computer Centre, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore