I don't want to take this off-line because the rest of the community will miss what I am saying and it is an important tip that could help a lot of people out. If for some odd reason, I'm off my rocker and I am spewing non-sense into the list, the worst that will happen is that someone will have one extra protocol in their list. :)
NetBEUI resolves names on a network by broadcasting and receiving those broadcasts. You are correct, NetBEUI is not directly required by VNC, but if you wish to connect to another computer by using the name and you don't have a DNS server and do not wish to use a hosts file, NETBEUI is for you. It appears that you are confusing the role of NETBIOS with NETBEUI. You mentioned that NETBEUI is on another transport than TCP/IP but in fact, NETBIOS is the transport layer protocol and NETBEUI is at the network layer. NetBIOS is concerned with setting up sessions and transporting the data. NETBEUI is concerned with things like name resolution and network mapping. Microsoft is dropping NETBEUI in order to push everybody to their Active Directory. It still works great for home LAN's as a quick and dirty name resolution protocol. I do have direct experience mixing Win9x and XP and properly configured NETBEUI is, in fact, required for them to see each other. There is a knowledge base article on it, but I don't have time to go dig it up right now. I hope that everybody understands why I suggest to install NETBEUI, now. - Steve Bostedor http://www.vncscan.com -----Original Message----- From: William Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Problem connecting with net name on Windows XP > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bostedor > > I beg you to just try it and I'm almost positive that it'll > work for you as long as you're on the same segment. > > This is something that I've seen hundreds of times. My point is more the fact that NetBEUI is not needed at all for VNC to work. Why add another network layer for no reason, much less an unsupported network layer? This is equivalent to fixing a flat tire by replacing the car. I have no direct experience mixing Win95 and WinXP, but I believe properly configured NetBEUI isn't required. I know for a fact that networking Win98 and WinXP machines doesn't require NetBEUI. There is a reason Microsoft is dropping support for NetBEUI. If you would like we can continue this discussion off-list, but for the record NetBEUI is in no way needed for VNC to work. -- William Hooper _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
