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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.ibm:3418 comp.unix.bsd:12967 comp.os.386bsd.development:1496 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:20707 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!pipex!pcproj.datastream.co.uk!pcproj.datastream.co.uk!not-for-mail From: paulr@pcproj.datastream.co.uk (Paul Rossington) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: [NETBIOS] Anyone with NetBIOS Unix code? Or SMB? Followup-To: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Date: 18 Nov 1993 09:24:06 -0000 Organization: Datastream International Ltd, London Lines: 39 Message-ID: <2cfevm$qkf@pcproj.datastream.co.uk> References: <2cbtuq$sj@orion.cc.andrews.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pcproj.datastream.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Andrew Gillham (gillham@andrews.edu) wrote: : Ok, I *know* I'll get some replies to this... :-) :-) : I'm looking for a free/pd NetBIOS implementation for Unix. i.e. : user level calls, etc.. NOT the rfc's!! : Better yet, does anyone have any free/pd SMB (server message block) : code/servers available? I have spec's on SMB, but nothing really : on NetBIOS. : Why you ask? Because I have several PC's (windows for workgroups) : connected to an NT machine and would like access to my Unix filesystems : without buying NFS clients or having to load TCP/IP on the PC's. : A way to mount NFS exports on NT and then share then would work, but : I don't think it would be free. What I would like to do is turn : my Unix machine (NetBSD) into a big WFW server. The SMB specs don't : seem that complicated, so if Appleshare can be impletemented via CAP, : why not SMB? : Thanks for any help, pointers, etc.. Andrew, my company has a similar problem to yours - we have some MSDOS based SNA gateways which advertise there services over NetBIOS. We are looking to write a UNIX client but didn't want to reimplement the server. So, NetBIOS on UNIX then. Well we came across one commercial vendor called MCS (I think) based on your side of the pond. If you require further details Email me. BTW, from the people I've spoken to in the Unix community about this the response has generally been of the form - "NetBIOS? That's a dodgy IBM protocol for DOS machines isn't it? It's not coming anywhere near my machine... What's wrong with sockets anyway?" :-) Hope this helps, Paul. -- Paul Rossington, | "Sometimes I think the surest sign that Datastream International, London | intelligent life exists elsewhere in the paulr@pcproj.datastream.co.uk | Universe is that fact that none of it has paulr@dspcproj.demon.co.uk | tried to contact us" - Calvin to Hobbes