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From: pierson@dos6.bro.dec.com (Jacques Pierson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NETBIOS Unix Server info.... :-)
Date: 29 Nov 1993 15:59:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2dd68u$1ri@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
References: <2cupi2$8ba@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <1993Nov26.150903.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> <2d6jho$j35@u.cc.utah.edu>
Reply-To: pierson@dos6.bro.dec.com (Jacques Pierson)
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No, port 137 IS UDP, and is used for NetBIOS broadcasting ("Naming Service").
The SMB server does not implement this functionality, and this can be
circumvented by specifying the server IP address via the SETNAME utility
of LanManager, or INETNAME in Pathworks. In that case, no NetBIOS "arping"
is required, the client can immediately start a TCP session with port 139.
Jacques Pierson
Digital Equipment
Brussels, Belgium
"I only speak for myself, not for Digital"