Trevor Warren,
NETBUI . It stands for NETBIOS Extended user
interface. NETBIOS was used by the older win m/cs as a
protocol for data transfer. But now due to the large
scale emergence of TCP/IP this protocol has been
limited to naming the m/cs & name simple name
resolution with the DNS server.
--- Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
>
> > >Guys, NetBEUI for linux is to be released today
> or tomorrow under the GPL.
> >
> > No ... they only announced that NetBEUI is to be
> released to linux; but the
> > GPL part isnt confirmed yet!
>
> From /.
> Procom has announced that they are releasing
> their NETBEUI stack to
> the Linux community. Press release is here. What
> the press release
> doesn't mention is that the stack will be
> available under the GPL
> license. The actual code release will be today
> or tomorrow (I will
> post a URL for the source as soon as I get it).
>
> > Anyway, what is it used for exactly? From what I
> know, it seems to be a
> > protocol that needs to be activated to make your
> Windoze machine into a
> > dial-in server.
>
> I don't really know what it is used for, but it's on
> all the windoze
> machines I've seen except mine. All I know is that
> this signifies more
> big companies moving to support linux by releasing
> linux versions of their
> products.
>
> Philip
>
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