Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount Netbeui volumes? Date: 21 May 1996 12:16:00 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4nstog$arg@plains.nodak.edu> References: <postmaster-0905961001120001@206.65.200.5> <319D6A06.391D3E08@lambert.org> <4nla4n$p74@ghost.whirlpool.com> <319E55A5.68D66B93@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From what I've read and been told, NetBIOS and NetBEUI are not "routable" protocols. (Note below that it is a "protocol".) Machines and associated resources communicating in this way have to be on the same network subnet. I've also been told that their main purpose is *speed* on small networks. Here is a snip from the NetBEUI "man" pages: The NetBIOS extended user interface (NetBEUI) is a small, efficient protocol optimized for high performance in smaller LANs or LAN segments. NetBEUI is designed to support department-sized LANs that consist of 20 to 200 workstations. It provides for both connectionless and connection-oriented traffic on a single network segment. NetBEUI does not support traffic across routers. NetBEUI is self-configuring and self-tuning. NetBEUI can be installed and bound to a network adapter card automatically when WindowsNT is installed. Important You must install the NetBEUI protocol if your computer communicates with other computers on an existing Microsoft network that uses NetBEUI with WindowsNT 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, or LAN Manager 2.x. If you do not have NetBEUI installed when your network requires it, your computer will not be able to communicate with other computers on your network. There is nothing specifically in the "man" pages about NetBIOS, except a topic on "NetBIOS Over TCP/IP". -- Daniel