From: e...@infoserv.com
Subject: SMB info
Date: 1995/07/10
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Hi all,

I am looking for a public domain implementation of the client SMB (Server
Message Block) on a top of TCP/IP socket API. I need it for a SMB project 
I am doing which requires some remote file server connectivity with an 
NT server.

Also, I would like to know, is it any licensing issue involves 
in having my little 
product use NT or WIN95 or Workgroup for windows as a file 
server for my
product for storing few files. If yes, where can I find more info
on the subject.

Please, any help or hint in this area is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ephi.

	My email address: e...@infoserv.com
	Fax: (408) 654-0501.

From: iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: SMB info
Date: 1995/07/20
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In article <1995Jul10.025145.7...@infoserv.com> e...@infoserv.com writes:
>I am looking for a public domain implementation of the client SMB (Server
>Message Block) on a top of TCP/IP socket API. I need it for a SMB project 
>I am doing which requires some remote file server connectivity with an 
>NT server.

Current Linux kernels have an SMBfs. It's GPL'd rather than public domain so
it may not be as free as you want.

>Also, I would like to know, is it any licensing issue involves 
>in having my little product use NT or WIN95 or Workgroup for windows 
>as a file server for my product for storing few files. If yes, where
>can I find more info on the subject.

I would suggest you start with the license documents with said products. If
its an issue SAMBA is a high quality free(GPL) SMB over TCP/IP over for Linux
and Unix systems.

Alan
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From: mben...@davinci.gmu.edu (Michael Benson)
Subject: Linux peer networking with win95?
Date: 1995/08/04
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Is there any effort underway to make Linux capable of peer networking with
Microsoft client in Windows 95?

Michael


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From: iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Linux peer networking with win95?
Date: 1995/08/07
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In article <3vu9ob$...@portal.gmu.edu> mben...@davinci.gmu.edu (Michael Benson) writes:
>Is there any effort underway to make Linux capable of peer networking with
>Microsoft client in Windows 95?

Been there for a while - SAMBA can serve files to W4WG/Win95/WinNT. ksmbfs
can mount shares.

Alan
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From: j...@ecosys.nbs.nau.edu (James W. Abendschan)
Subject: Samba and NetBEUI
Date: 1995/08/14
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Hello.  I've got a network of Windows 3.1 machines running Windows
for Workgroups and PCTCP.   I have a Sparc 20 (Solaris 2.3) running
Samba.  Because my Samba can't speak NetBEUI, it can't serve the WFWG
machines.

Can Samba speak NetBEUI yet?  Will it ever be able to?

An alternative is to use Microsoft's TCP/IP stack, but it's incompatible
with the applications we need -- so it's worthless.

If Samba can't speak NetBEUI, is there some way to get Windowz to speak
The WFWG protocol over TCP/IP via PCTCP?  I also have access to OnNet (the
successor to PCTCP) and so far I haven't found a way to get OnNet to
do this, either..

Suggestions are welcome!

James

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From: Shane Anderson < sh...@nve.com>
Subject: Re: Samba and NetBEUI
Date: 1995/08/20
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j...@ecosys.nbs.nau.edu (James W. Abendschan) wrote:
>Hello.  I've got a network of Windows 3.1 machines running Windows
>for Workgroups and PCTCP.   I have a Sparc 20 (Solaris 2.3) running
>Samba.  Because my Samba can't speak NetBEUI, it can't serve the WFWG
>machines.
>
>Can Samba speak NetBEUI yet?  Will it ever be able to?
>
>An alternative is to use Microsoft's TCP/IP stack, but it's incompatible
>with the applications we need -- so it's worthless.
>
>If Samba can't speak NetBEUI, is there some way to get Windowz to speak
>The WFWG protocol over TCP/IP via PCTCP?  I also have access to OnNet (the
>successor to PCTCP) and so far I haven't found a way to get OnNet to
>do this, either..
>
>Suggestions are welcome!
>
>James
>
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Sorry, no answer here.  Just a reiteration of the problem.

As far as I know, Netbeui support isn't being worked on for samba on any Unix
platform.  (I'd love it if it was...)  So, the current alternatives are the
two TCP/IP stacks from microsoft.  The TCP/IP 16 stack just plain sucks.  It
takes up way too much dos memory and doesn't give me enough room to open any
apps in windows that need a winsock interface.  The TCP/IP 32 stack works great
but leaves out the DOS side support (except for DOS shells...)  And I've heard
that the Microsoft TCP/IP stack is the ONLY one that supports NetBios over
TCP/IP.  (Which means that it's the only TCP/IP stack that will work with
Samba)

So... Netbeui support would be great!  Or even IPX with NetBios support.  I
originally thought that the IPX route may be fairly easy to implement on a
Linux machine, since the kernel has some IPX support built in.  But... I don't
have the time to investigate..  :(   Anyone interested in pursuing this?

Shane Anderson (sh...@nve.com)

From: iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Samba and NetBEUI
Date: 1995/08/21
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In article <416dcq$...@news.webspan.com> Shane Anderson < sh...@nve.com> writes:
>As far as I know, Netbeui support isn't being worked on for samba on any Unix
>platform.  (I'd love it if it was...)  So, the current alternatives are the

Someone is working on it as a sort of play possibility for Linux. If it
comes off it comes off , if not it doesnt. I believe the Linux kernel has
all the support needed for Samba over IPX, someone just has to figure the
protocol over the IPX and implement it.

For netbeui you'll just have to wait and see.

Alan


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