NETBIOS-less SMB

[Christopher R. Hertel]

My recommendation would be to run PPPoE or similar tunneling protocol
between the two boxes.  Even with 'native' SMB, there are many support
protocols to be considered.

Chris -)-----

"Jeffrey R. Hay" wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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> --
> Jeffrey R. Hay
> Los Alamos National Laboratory, RADIANT Team
> Research And Development In Advanced Network Technology
> www: http://www.lanl.gov/radiant, email: jrhay at lanl.gov
> phone: (505)665-4953, fax: (505)665-4934

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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services