NETBIOS-less SMB

[Jeffrey R. Hay]

True, but then again, I don't care particularly for virtual servers -- all
I care about is sharing a filespace...  why I care about NB-lessness is
that we have just set up a firewall to make a "clean" network - that is, a
network with no extrenuous broadcast-type messages (since we are doing
network traffic research, this is very important to us).  We have a Win2000
machine inside the firewall, and a Linux server which for a variety of
reasons must stay outside the firewall... I want to be able to "natively"
access the filespace on the Linux machine from the Win2000 machine - which
means Samba or something like MS's Unix Services (to get NFS).  Since
NetBIOS violates our clean network principles, it is not an option - but
I'd still like to use Samba, hence my question.

-Jeff

p.mayers at ic.ac.uk wrote:
> From: "Mayers, Philip J" <p.mayers at ic.ac.uk>
> To: "'samba-technical at samba.org'" <samba-technical at samba.org>
> Subject: RE: NetBIOS-less SMB
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:37:04 -0000
> 
> Out of interest, why care? NetBIOS-less SMB actually has less functionality
> (lack of virtual servers for one) than vanilla SMB.
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hay
> To: samba-technical at us5.samba.org
> Sent: 01/02/01 20:56
> Subject: NetBIOS-less SMB
> 
> Windows 2000 supports NetBIOS-less SMB via TCP port 445.  As I would
> like
> to move away from "chatty" protocols such as NetBIOS, I am very
> interested
> in this feature -- what's the current status of it in Samba?  There is
> mention of port 445 "working" in the 2.0.7 source/cvs.log file, but I
> can't find any trace of it in the code.... am I just blind, or is
> something actually missing here?  Thanks for the update.
> 

-- 
Jeffrey R. Hay
Los Alamos National Laboratory, RADIANT Team
Research And Development In Advanced Network Technology
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