On Wednesday 06 April 2005 19:12, A. Khattri wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as > > well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays. No.
> NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware. No. > Windows 98 uses NetBeui (so there's probably many millions of machines > that still use it). No. > Windows 2000 and XP use NBT instead. No, they use TCP/IP. > > Samba speaks NetBIOS/SMB/CIFS on TCP/IP, not netbeui. Yes. > SMB is a higher layer protocol that runs on top of NBT. Samba can also > speak Netbeui too - I have done this to share files between Win95/98 > machines and a Linux box. Im assuming Samba is backwards compatible. No. NetBEUI is a local networking protocol on the same OSI layers as TCP/UDP and IP (3 and 4). It handles the delivery of information between logical endpoints. It also happens to be unroutable. NetBIOS is a level above that (level 5). NetBIOS can run on NetBEUI, (TCP|UDP)/IP or IPX/SPX. SMB is layers 6 and 7. It runs on NetBIOS (which can run over NetBEUI, (TCP|UDP)/IP or IPX/SPX). CIFS is a new version of SMB.
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