NetBIOS-free SMB protocol on port 445 in Windows 2000/XP

[Andrew Bartlett]

Ulf Bertilsson wrote:
> 
> > No, my gripe is against using DNS names and IP addresses to identify
> > NetBIOS services.  Port 445 gets rid of the NBT (NetBIOS over
> > TCP layer) so DNS is appropriate.
> 
> Won't this need an updated DNS functionality on all clients ?
> 
> Offtopic ?
> 

Which clients don't already do DNS?  smbclient and Windoze both do.

Andrew Bartlett

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