So, you are offering advice to use a protocol which may or may not exist and be available now? And of which you have no current experience?
I'm offering a pointer to check whether Samba.org currently supports NETBEUI or not, based on my past experience of it being more efficient and faster than other protocols, with less overhead.
Wouldn't it make better sense to cite performance comparisons of the various common protocols? Maybe articles such as.....
I did, earlier in this same thread.
"NetBEUI is a small, efficient, and fast protocol with low overhead.
One reason for NetBEUI's lower overhead is that NetBEUI does not require an explicit acknowledgment (ACK) of each frame before it sends the next. Instead, the computer packages up several ACKs and sends them all at once. Requiring an ACK for every packet wastes network resources. NetBEUI dynamically determines the number of frames the sender can transmit before receiving an ACK, based on the network's current conditions.
NetBEUI was developed for LANs segmented into workgroups of 20 to 200 computers, with gateways connecting LAN segments to one another or to mainframes. NetBEUI is optimized for very high performance when used in departmental LANs or LAN segments. For traffic within a LAN segment, NetBEUI typically is the fastest protocol."
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6556/6556pro_021.html
It was designed at a time when LANs where 1-4Mbit, and CPUs were slow compared to today.
Here, another source
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NetBEUI has less overhead, so it is very efficient in small networks (less then 10 computers), and it is actually faster then TCP/IP.
However on large Networks it produces the opposite effect, and might "bog" down the Network. "
FC
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