AFAIK all windows networking uses netbios. Netbios either runs over IPX or
TCP/IP. I don't know if it runs over netbeui (moot point anyway). Samba thus
does use netbios, BUT only over tcp/ip.
Denis Havlik wrote:
> :~>I believe my local network is NetBIOS running on TCP/IP and doesn't use
> :~>WINS resolution. It's behind a socks5 firewall (not that that has anything
> :~>to do with it). As you may see from my smb.conf file below, I've created
> :~>an account called 'winloser' which is a member of the group users. The
> :~>directory /export/cifs below is owned by root and the group users. If
> :~>there's any other info I can provide, let me know...
>
> 1) please do not cross-post.
> 2) AFAIK samba does not support netbios. samba does smb/TCP. Either your
> local network runs under smb/TCP, and you should proceed with samba, or it
> runs under netbios (i.e. servers run "Novel-netware", in which case samba
> is a wrong tool for you.
> 3) try configuring the samba with "swat". It is much easier for a newbie
>
> cu
> Denis
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