Re: usefullness of netbeui

Ian Eure (ieure@peninsula.wednet.edu)
Wed, 20 May 1998 12:04:17 -0700


Actually, in the win95 network properties dialog, if you go to the file and
printer sharing setup, you can choose what protocols it binds to- and you are
certainly able to remove tcp/ip and leave netbeui/dlc/ipx with no problems.

Johan Myréen wrote:

> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Marty Leisner wrote:
>
> > There's been discussion of how useful netbeui is.
>
> > I recently read a column in one of the free rags (PC Week?)
> > where the writer discussed having win95 machines
> > directly hooked up to the internet.
>
> > If that's the case, you don't want to export shares via tcp/ip,
> > because others could wreck havoc on your machines (since
> > Netbeui is non-routable, its fairly safe).
>
> > This sounds like the best use I've heard for netbeui (you
> > purposely want a non-routable protcol).
>
> Yes, but can you choose the protocol the shares are using? I
> don't think so. If the (Win95) server has both TCP/IP (which
> it must have, if it is 'hooked up to the Internet') and
> NetBEUI installed, the shares can be accessed both from a
> TCP/IP-only client and a NetBEUI-only client.
>
> Johan Myreen
> jem@iki.fi
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu