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diff --git a/docs/Samba3-Developers-Guide/NetBIOS.xml b/docs/Samba3-Developers-Guide/NetBIOS.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 04eaecd4ab..0000000000 --- a/docs/Samba3-Developers-Guide/NetBIOS.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,156 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> -<chapter id="netbios"> -<chapterinfo> - <author> - <firstname>Luke</firstname><surname>Leighton</surname> - </author> - <pubdate>12 June 1997</pubdate> -</chapterinfo> - -<title>Definition of NetBIOS Protocol and Name Resolution Modes</title> - -<sect1> -<title>NETBIOS</title> - -<para> -NetBIOS runs over the following transports: TCP/IP; NetBEUI and IPX/SPX. -Samba only uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP. For details on the TCP/IP NetBIOS -Session Service NetBIOS Datagram Service, and NetBIOS Names, see -rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt. -</para> - -<para> -NetBEUI is a raw NetBIOS frame protocol implementation that allows NetBIOS -datagrams to be sent out over the 'wire' embedded within LLC frames. -NetBEUI is not required when using NetBIOS over TCP/IP protocols and it -is preferable NOT to install NetBEUI if it can be avoided. -</para> - -<para> -IPX/SPX is also not required when using NetBIOS over TCP/IP, and it is -preferable NOT to install the IPX/SPX transport unless you are using Novell -servers. At the very least, it is recommended that you do not install -'NetBIOS over IPX/SPX'. -</para> - -<para> -[When installing Windows 95, you will find that NetBEUI and IPX/SPX are -installed as the default protocols. This is because they are the simplest -to manage: no Windows 95 user-configuration is required]. -</para> - -<para> -NetBIOS applications (such as samba) offer their services (for example, -SMB file and print sharing) on a NetBIOS name. They must claim this name -on the network before doing so. The NetBIOS session service will then -accept connections on the application's behalf (on the NetBIOS name -claimed by the application). A NetBIOS session between the application -and the client can then commence. -</para> - -<para> -NetBIOS names consist of 15 characters plus a 'type' character. This is -similar, in concept, to an IP address and a TCP port number, respectively. -A NetBIOS-aware application on a host will offer different services under -different NetBIOS name types, just as a host will offer different TCP/IP -services on different port numbers. -</para> - -<para> -NetBIOS names must be claimed on a network, and must be defended. The use -of NetBIOS names is most suitable on a single subnet; a Local Area Network -or a Wide Area Network. -</para> - -<para> -NetBIOS names are either UNIQUE or GROUP. Only one application can claim a -UNIQUE NetBIOS name on a network. -</para> - -<para> -There are two kinds of NetBIOS Name resolution: Broadcast and Point-to-Point. -</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>BROADCAST NetBIOS</title> - -<para> -Clients can claim names, and therefore offer services on successfully claimed -names, on their broadcast-isolated subnet. One way to get NetBIOS services -(such as browsing: see ftp.microsoft.com/drg/developr/CIFS/browdiff.txt; and -SMB file/print sharing: see cifs4.txt) working on a LAN or WAN is to make -your routers forward all broadcast packets from TCP/IP ports 137, 138 and 139. -</para> - -<para> -This, however, is not recommended. If you have a large LAN or WAN, you will -find that some of your hosts spend 95 percent of their time dealing with -broadcast traffic. [If you have IPX/SPX on your LAN or WAN, you will find -that this is already happening: a packet analyzer will show, roughly -every twelve minutes, great swathes of broadcast traffic!]. -</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1> -<title>NBNS NetBIOS</title> - -<para> -rfc1001.txt describes, amongst other things, the implementation and use -of, a 'NetBIOS Name Service'. NT/AS offers 'Windows Internet Name Service' -which is fully rfc1001/2 compliant, but has had to take specific action -with certain NetBIOS names in order to make it useful. (for example, it -deals with the registration of <1c> <1d> <1e> names all in different ways. -I recommend the reading of the Microsoft WINS Server Help files for full -details). -</para> - -<para> -The use of a WINS server cuts down on broadcast network traffic for -NetBIOS name resolution. It has the effect of pulling all the broadcast -isolated subnets together into a single NetBIOS scope, across your LAN -or WAN, while avoiding the use of TCP/IP broadcast packets. -</para> - -<para> -When you have a WINS server on your LAN, WINS clients will be able to -contact the WINS server to resolve NetBIOS names. Note that only those -WINS clients that have registered with the same WINS server will be -visible. The WINS server _can_ have static NetBIOS entries added to its -database (usually for security reasons you might want to consider putting -your domain controllers or other important servers as static entries, -but you should not rely on this as your sole means of security), but for -the most part, NetBIOS names are registered dynamically. -</para> - -<para> -This provides some confusion for lots of people, and is worth mentioning -here: a Browse Server is NOT a WINS Server, even if these services are -implemented in the same application. A Browse Server _needs_ a WINS server -because a Browse Server is a WINS client, which is _not_ the same thing]. -</para> - -<para> -Clients can claim names, and therefore offer services on successfully claimed -names, on their broadcast-isolated subnet. One way to get NetBIOS services -(such as browsing: see ftp.microsoft.com/drg/developr/CIFS/browdiff.txt; and -SMB file/print sharing: see cifs6.txt) working on a LAN or WAN is to make -your routers forward all broadcast packets from TCP/IP ports 137, 138 and 139. -You will find, however, if you do this on a large LAN or a WAN, that your -network is completely swamped by NetBIOS and browsing packets, which is why -WINS was developed to minimise the necessity of broadcast traffic. -</para> - -<para> -WINS Clients therefore claim names from the WINS server. If the WINS -server allows them to register a name, the client's NetBIOS session service -can then offer services on this name. Other WINS clients will then -contact the WINS server to resolve a NetBIOS name. -</para> - -</sect1> - -</chapter> |