[ale] XP and Samba

Joseph A Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 10 17:03:58 EST 2001


Vaidhy Mayilrangam wrote:
> 
> yes.. but MS windows and Samba do not use tcp/ip.. they use netbios/netbeui
> to share resources ..
> 
> Vaidhy
> 

No, they use the SMB (Server Message Block, hence SaMBa)
protocol, which can run on different underlying transport
protocols, TCP/IP and NetBEUI among them. Samba implements
SMB-over-[TCP|UDP].

Cheers,

-- Joe

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