Re: NetBEUI for Unix on its way...

[Dan Shearer <dshearer@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au>]

> > 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.

You can afford Dr Dobbs??  :-)

Anyone doing this should also look at OpenDOS. The code is not GPLd (some 
of it might be I belive) but in any case there is at least one network 
VFS driver included.

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Dan Shearer
Dan.Shearer@unisa.edu.au