On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So? What did the samba devs say? Did they even bother to answer the > question? > > Best, :-) Here's the update: the last kernel on top of which you can run NETBEUI is 2.4 [1] Nobody seems to have ported the required kernel patches to 3.x kernels :-(. This is what I remembered about Samba 2.x used with NetBEUI https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2000-July/008748.html Back then Samba's Jeremy Allison (now at Google, apparently?) said "It will of course *definately* be merged for (Samba) 3.0. It'll probably be done as a ./configure option (--with-netbeui)." But it never happened because the changes to the kernel it relied on where never added to the mainline Linux kernel. Here, Allison himself explained in 2006 [2]: "The problem was that depended on Linux kernel changes that never got added (and I don't think would get added)" concluding that "It might be worth revisiting at some future point, but currently I don't have the bandwidth to add it. If someone wanted to do this it would make an excellent "summer of code" style project." Now it's one of those times where I wish I had the knowledge to bring those patches to the current kernel... :) NetBEUI (Microsoftspeak) aka NETBIOS (IBMSpeak) aka NBF [4] is really fast, believe me. And complies with the "KISS Principle" [3] of having low overhead (but also no strong crypto, no fancy modern features, it's just to share files between trusted machines on a local LAN segment, and it did so very nicely :) Oh well... :-/ FC [1] NetBEUI support patches ported to kernel 2.4.24 http://zhubr.tamb.ru/netbeui/ [2] Allison on why NetBEUI was never added (2006) https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-January/116383.html [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS_Frames_protocol -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
