[Samba] Do I need NETBIOS/NETBEUI on windows clients when samba is my PDC

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Tue Feb 25 21:02:18 GMT 2003


On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Aaron Bennett wrote:

>
>
> milend wrote:
> > Do I really need NETBIOS/NETBEUI on the windows clients?
                             ^^^^^^^

Note: NetBEUI is NetBIOS over LLC. This is a non-routable protocol. You do
NOT want NetBEUI - AT ALL! You do want NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

WINS is your friend - please do use it.

>
> if you don't have a WINS server, yes
>
> > Do I need WINS server running on Samba PDC as well?
>
> see above *grin*

Why grin? Do you have a technical objection to WINS?

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
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