--- nici bhatt nici_bom@hotmail.com wrote:
hi
i do appreciate your prompt reply about this mail but you didn�t pick my word I am well aware about �SAMBA� but things which I am looking for is just install one protocol and u r through.
A protocol is a standard method for two computers to exchange information. TCP/IP is one such protocol, which enjoys universal support. However, using TCP/IP means a certain amount of configuration in terms of setting IP addresses, etc.
You don�t have to configure any thing. You tell me how much configuration is involved in getting �SAMBA� up I know it. how can you aspect one dum user of windows network to do all this configuration.
Yes, but NetBEUI is severely limited. It is not routable, so you cannot subnet large NetBEUI networks. Even Micro$oft has now moved to IP networks because of these limitations.
So I am in search of one protocol which will help me to minimize this hard efforts and your desktop is on highway straight-away
I therefore believe that it would not be a very useful thing to create a NetBEUI support layer for UNIX/ Linux, since it is not very widely used any more. Very small networks may still apply NetBEUI, but that is about it.
It's called SaMBa, and there's a client called
Linneighbourhood that
acts like network neighbourhood in windows. Allows
you to brows the
entire windows network, as well as other samba
servers. Needs a little
more work though.
The configuration effort involved is small when you look at the results. "A little more work" is apt - the Samba config file is simple enough for anyone with a basic idea of LanMan/ NT networking to configure.
It has nothing to do with your filesystem. Over
the network, there is
no filesystem. Samba takes care of everything.
Philip
To amplify on Philip's point, the "filesystem" is SMB, which is what is the ultimate arbiter of browsing a Windows networks, whether over NetBEUI or IP. Thus, the only advantage NetBEUI has is its lack of configurability and transportability, which is in fact its biggest drawback.
Rgds,
Krishnan
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