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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount Netbeui volumes?
Date: 16 May 1996 16:28:57 +0100
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:

: SMB can be transported of any transport supported by your system;
: for Samba, this is typically TCP/IP.  For NT, this is any NetBIOS
: transport -- TCP/IP, NetBEUI, IPX, or other wire protocol that
: can be used to encapsulate and transport SMB packets.

I thought NetBEUI stood for Netbios end user interface, and therefore
sat on top of netbios rather than act as a transport ?  If it's a
transport, have I got my understanding of acronym right ?

Thanks for any info.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....