Re: [Fwd: Re: [LUG] Linux as a print server]

[Aaron Trevena <betty at termisoc.org>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Jon Still wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Aaron Trevena supposedly said:
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure SAMBA supports NETBEUI as SMB is backwards compatible with
> > NETBEUI/BIOS - thats just off the top of my head tho'
> 
> Nope.

I stand corrected! :)
 
> Samba just provides the SMB services on top of the OS's own network stack,
> i.e. NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP).  For NetBEUI support you'll need layer 3
> support, i.e. kernel level drivers.

Ah! I should have known that (well not really I ignored all windoze
related stuff on the course and its not considered a real NOS by the
lecturers who matter).

> And besides, anyone caught using NetBEUI should be shot.  It's a
> nonroutable protocol and doesn't even bridge particularly well.  For
> anything apart from Win95 on a single segment for people who can't wrap
> thir heads around IP addresses, it's not worth doing.

yup!

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