On Tuesday 11 June 2002 18:05, David Marti wrote:
To your friend: THIS IS THE MOMENT TO CHANGE TO TCP/IP. |-)
A friend of mine is taxing my Network knowledge these days. He has a Windows server and is trying out Linux.... as a Client on his NetBEUI network.
NetBEUI is from the "Windows For Workgroups" days. The current Microsoft recommendation for busy networks is "NetBIOS over tcp/ip". Even with NT 3.51 Microsoft recommended against using NetBEUI for busy networks. (Believe it or not, they were recommending IPX/SPX at that time.) I don't even know if Win2000 and WinXP support NetBEUI. As others have said, Samba supports "NetBIOS over tcp/ip". ===== FYI: NetBEUI is a broadcast protocol with no support for routers. It works fine for networks of 5 or less machines. IIRC, at around 20 machines, a 10 megabit network is roughly 50% saturated, just from all the brainless broadcast messages. Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com