Re: NetBEUI for Unix on its way...

[Charlie Brady <cbrady@ind.tansu.com.au>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Dan Shearer wrote:

> The following message is from someone in Canada who is implementing 
> NetBEUI in order to boot Workgroups/W95/W98 diskless without having to 
> have an NT/OS/2/Pathworks etc machine to start the initial real-mode 
> stack before teh TCP/IP kicks in. This has been why Samba was unable to 
> be the only solution in diskless Microsoft environments. This should 
> appear in Samba at some stage.

An alternative Dan would be for someone to take the SMBlib code, and build
a file redirector for DOS which uses a freeware TCP/IP stack. I remember
seeing an Installable File System (IFS) framework in a Dr Dobbs article a
year or so ago, so most of the pieces already exist.

>  Dan Shearer                            email: Dan.Shearer@UniSA.edu.au
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:45:38 -0230 (NDT)
> From: Michael Rendell <michael@cs.mun.ca>
> To: Dan Shearer <dan.shearer@unisa.edu.au>
> Subject: RE: samba and bpshell.exe
> 
> On 22-Sep-97 Dan Shearer wrote:
>  >If you have done this and the code is available we would love to see it. 
> 
> It is still in alpha test mode (the netbios layer is in user space).  I'll
> be sending patches for samba, as well as for freebsd (kernel mods for
> 802.2 and netbios layers) when the code is written and appears to work
> (~1 month for alpha releases, 2+ for beta).  A linux port will start sometime
> after that (sooner if someone else wants to do the work, which will be
> non-trivial).  I'll be sending some mail to the samba list when its ready
> for alpha testing...
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

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