On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 08:26 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
The only advantage that I can see to running NetBeui is that a network recovery disk for most PCs using MS-DOS can fit on a high density floppy.Actually, you *CAN* make a DOS boot floppy and fit the MSClient 3.0 with TCP/IP stack onto it. Granted it is a little harder to squeeze the files on.... but it can be done. The main problem with TCP/IP and the DOS MS-Client is the memory footprint of that old DOS TCP/IP stack....
It probably will take some sort of layer to translate the NetBios over NetBeui so that it looked like TCP/IP to SAMBA. I do not know how much work that would be.It would take more than a casual amount of effort! And I for one don't see where it would be a worthwhile project to expend resources on, when NETBIOS over TCP/IP or IPX is how the rest of the world, including Microsoft themselves, communicates for SMB networking....
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Jim Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
