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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.whirlpool.com!ghost.whirlpool.com!not-for-mail From: gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD mount Netbeui volumes? Date: 18 May 1996 15:58:15 -0400 Organization: Whirlpool Corporation Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4nla4n$p74@ghost.whirlpool.com> References: <postmaster-0905961001120001@206.65.200.5> <319404CD.33E93F68@lambert.org> <4nfhjp$2f5@anorak.coverform.lan> <319D6A06.391D3E08@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghost.whirlpool.com In article <319D6A06.391D3E08@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > >It's a protocol. not an API... it's a transport *under* the >NetBIOS insteface. Kind of like tires are something *under* a car. :-) >There are 160 seperate uses of NetBEUI on www.ibm.com ...but none >of them say what it stands for. > >There are 634 sperate places on www.microsoft.com... none of which >define it. 8-). > >So I don't know if you have the acronym right -- I really don't >remember what it really means! 8-). I *believe* it is: NETBios Extended User Interface. If I remember correctly, NetBEUI was "invented" when Micro$oft realized that an SMB server couldn't talk to more than 255ish nodes on one "network", and the only way was to use multiple NICs/networks or "extend" the protocol. (NetBIOS being the "protocol" (sic)) Just to make life fun, and not exclude any "hacks", lets run NetBEUI on the Ethernet_802.3 "frame type"... :) -Andrew -- ------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gillham = gillham@whirlpool.com Internet/LAN Services = inoc@whirlpool.com Whirlpool Corporation = http://www.whirlpool.com