NetBIOS types

[Ulf Bertilsson]

> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q163/4/09.ASP
> > Just for the "completenes" of the trhead, which also points 
> to another
> > useful article on __MSBROWSE__ et.al.
> > perhaps a pointer to this info would be useful in the samba docs?
> > Anders
> 
> 
> And Microsoft says:
> 
> +The NetBIOS naming convention allows for 16 characters in a NetBIOS 
> +name. Microsoft, however, limits NetBIOS names to 15 characters and 
> +uses the 16th character as a NetBIOS suffix.
> 
> This is just plain wrong, because NetBIOS names have been 
> this way since 
> 1984, when the very first papers on the PC Network Program by 
> IBM were 
> released.

I guess Chris H might have a few comments here ?