Re: SMB over public network
NetBIOS is an application-layer protocol, you can run it over TCP/IP, or IPX,
or NetBEUI, or whatever transport you want.
-Kevin
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:38:59PM -0500, Nitebirdz wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Gregory Wood wrote:
>
> > There is a 'host' file on the pc running Win9x. That is where you have to enter your info so that you can attach to a remote network.
> >
> > However, I have had customers who have tried that and would loose their network connection. I believe its a weakness in the MS client. Same connection with Novell client fixed the problem. There may be 'retry' options under MS that I never found.
> >
> > You may want to try NFS. I was told that NFS was available for Windows but never looked.
> >
> > If you do get this to work reliably, I'd like to hear from you.
> >
> > Greg Wood
> >
>
> How can you get Samba to work over the Internet? I mean, after all it
> runs on NetBIOS while the Internet runs on TCP/IP... Can anyone please
> shed some light here? If it is possible at all, I'd certainly love to
> know, and I'd also love to know how it works.
>
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