Walter Dnes wrote: >On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:46:47PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote > > > >>Hmm, maybe I don't understand the question. I don't run Netbeui, but I >>_can_ use a WINS server for resolving host names to IP addresses in >>Gentoo by adding the 'wins' option to the hosts line in nsswitch.conf >>and having a properly configured smb.conf file. >> >> > > What we have here is a failure to communicate... >samba == Netbeui for *nix > >
This is not correct. I did some googling, and NetBEUI seems to be a protocol at the same level as TCP/IP. It is used for the same thing as NetBIOS, *but* NetBIOS is routable over TCP/IP, meaning it can be used on large corporate lans with multiple subnets. NetBEUI only works on the same subnet. I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays. Samba speaks NetBIOS/SMB/CIFS on TCP/IP, not netbeui. -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
