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NETbios on LINUX

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by jthornto

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I am looking for a way to do some basic NETbios operations on a LINUX system. I have not found mention of any NETbios support for LINUX. I am looking for:
1. Information about NETbios support on LINUX
2. How to interface to the the network adaptors on LINUX (so I can send and recieve NETbios traffic myself - last ditch approach). In this case, the network adapter is also handling TCP/IP traffic, so I must "share" the adaptor.
TIA (thanks in advance)

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by jthornto

samba provides some netBIOS-like support for accessing file system and printers. I need the low-level netBIOS functionality to send messages via the netBIOS protocol (RFC1001, 1002). I am aware of what samba offers, and it does not offer a solution to the problem of talking to a system in netBIOS'ese (not that I have found in any of the books I've scanned on the subject). It's transmission is also encapsulated in TCP/IP. Most likely, I need a solution that puts the actual 802.x packets directly on the net to be able to talk to the remote system I need to talk to (the system runs OS/2).

by tzuchi111

"I am aware of what samba offers, and it does not offer a solution to the problem of talking to a system in netBIOS'ese (not that I have found in any of the books I've scanned on the subject). It's transmission is also encapsulated in TCP/IP."

Probably what you're looking for is doing remote procedure calls across the network using netbios? If that's your gig use XML, but the lower level support for netbios broadcasts has to come from the IP stack configuration. Since I'm not the samba guru I don't have anything to offer beyond clever configuration.

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