On 30 May 99, at 0:15, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> Second: Baggage/Design. You can't pare that sucker down to essential
> services and code. Worse yet, most of what you'd worry about isn't
> documented well enough to help in an attempt. There's also a great deal
> of non-IP networking baggage, and perhaps some IP networking baggage that
> doesn't seem to have an off button. In fact, lack of off buttons is a
> big thing overall. Sometimes the off buttons are undocumented registry
> settings - what a joy that is to replicate!
To pick an example at random, the "WINS Client" service -- required by the
"Server" and "Workstation" services, and others -- requires in turn the
"NetBIOS over TCP/IP Helper", EVEN IF you've disabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP and
send it only over (not routable) NetBEUI....
David G
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