NetBEUI Support under Linux

[John Hoffman]

Hello,

Anyone out there know if there is NetBEUI (Netbios) support under Linux?

I am interested in porting Linux to a server but it must support NetBEUI.

Thanks

John Hoffman

[Thornton Prime]

John Hoffman wrote:
> Anyone out there know if there is NetBEUI (Netbios) support under Linux?

NetBEUI is a bastard child. Even Microsoft is dumping it in favor of
NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

Linux DOES support NetBIOS over TCP/IP. The Samba package allows your
Linux machine to serve/access files and printers (among other numerous
and wonderful things) to/from Windows machines using NetBIOS over
TCP/IP. There is also a SMB kernel module which lets Linux mount shares
from Windows machines.

> I am interested in porting Linux to a server but it must support NetBEUI.

Upgrade everyone to NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Everyone will be happier in the
long run.

We upgraded all of our machines to NetBIOS and were able to entirely
eliminate our slow, bloated NT servers by formating the hard drive and
installing Linux. Now the network is much faster, the servers handle
more services, and the server load is much lighter. My administration
was made much easier too. Everybody wins.

thornton

[Thornton Prime]

John Hoffman wrote:
> Anyone out there know if there is NetBEUI (Netbios) support under Linux?

NetBEUI is a bastard child. Even Microsoft is dumping it in favor of
NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

Linux DOES support NetBIOS over TCP/IP. The Samba package allows your
Linux machine to serve/access files and printers (among other numerous
and wonderful things) to/from Windows machines using NetBIOS over
TCP/IP. There is also a SMB kernel module which lets Linux mount shares
from Windows machines.

> I am interested in porting Linux to a server but it must support NetBEUI.

Upgrade everyone to NetBIOS over TCP/IP. Everyone will be happier in the
long run.

We upgraded all of our machines to NetBIOS and were able to entirely

eliminate our slow, bloated NT servers by formatting the hard drive and

[David Wilburn]

John Hoffman <hoff...@bellsouth.net> babbled:
> Hello,

> Anyone out there know if there is NetBEUI (Netbios) support under Linux?

> I am interested in porting Linux to a server but it must support NetBEUI.

> Thanks

> John Hoffman

Well,there's samba, which does SMB stuff over TCP/IP, but that's all
that I'm aware of. No lowlevel NetBEUI support to my knowledge, but I
may be wrong. As far as I know, Linux supports TCP/IP, IPX/SPX,
Appletalk, and the various PPP-like protocols.

-Bug

--
* David Wilburn, a.k.a. "Bug"
* JMU Computer Science Student
* Boycott naugahyde! Save the naugas!

[Eric Princen]

NetBEUI is even being dropped by MS. For that to happen, you know how bad
it has to be. Why would you need to use NetBEUI?

-Eric ;-)

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