NetBIOS-less SMB

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Wed Feb 7 14:36:55 GMT 2001


Jeff Hay wrote:
> 
> 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.

The port 445 stuff is in SAMBA_TNG.  






CHeers, jerry
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