On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as
well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays.
NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware.
Windows 98 uses NetBeui (so there's probably many millions of machines
that
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 19:12, A. Khattri wrote:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as
well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays.
No.
NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware.
No.
Windows 98 uses
A. Khattri wrote:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
NetBeui is NetBIOS running over another transport like TCP/IP or Netware.
Sorry, but this is false. NetBIOS over TCP/IP is neither netbeui nor
NBF (the current incarnation of netbeui for NT/2000/XP).
John Myers wrote:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
I think NetBIOS can be used at the ethernet level as
well, but that seems fairly uncommon nowadays.
No.
Yep, I had not googled enough yet when I wrote that. Thanks for
correcting me.
-Richard
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Walter Dnes wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:46:47PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote
Hmm, maybe I don't understand the question. I don't run Netbeui, but I
_can_ use a WINS server for resolving host names to IP addresses in
Gentoo by adding the 'wins' option to the hosts line in nsswitch.conf
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
It just occurred to me that don't really use Gentoo's networking, I have
something a bit more custom for mobility reasons. The biggest problem
with dhcpcd is that it doesn't do anything with the WINS servers options
provided by the dhcp server.
WINS
A. Khattri wrote:
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
It just occurred to me that don't really use Gentoo's networking, I have
something a bit more custom for mobility reasons. The biggest problem
with dhcpcd is that it doesn't do anything with the WINS servers options
provided by the
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
My understanding is that a typical network windows network runs netbios
on top of TCP/IP, so anytime you are accessing windows/samba file or
printer services, you are 'running' netbios. At least it seems that if
I disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in Windows
A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
My understanding is that a typical network windows network runs netbios
on top of TCP/IP, so anytime you are accessing windows/samba file or
printer services, you are 'running' netbios. At least it seems that if
I disable NetBIOS over
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
So when I bring up konqueror and type smb://servername/sharename,
You are doing Netbeui at that point :-)
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:46:47PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote
Hmm, maybe I don't understand the question. I don't run Netbeui, but I
_can_ use a WINS server for resolving host names to IP addresses in
Gentoo by adding the 'wins' option to the hosts line in nsswitch.conf
and having a properly
Grant wrote:
Well, I share this worry. I haven't yet run into anyplace wired or
wireless that Gentoo couldn't handle
What kind of configurations have you had to use? Does dhcp always
take care of it with a blank /etc/conf.d/net ?
It just occurred to me that don't really use Gentoo's
1. I'm traveling and need to connect my laptop to strange Internet
connections that (with Linux) require exotic configs.
Well, I share this worry. I haven't yet run into anyplace wired or
wireless that Gentoo couldn't handle
What kind of configurations have you had to use? Does dhcp
I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and
the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location
that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to
have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these three machines but I'm scared of
something
I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and
the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location
that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to
have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these three machines but I'm scared of
something not working
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:57 -0800, Grant wrote:
I have three Gentoo workstations. One is a laptop I take with me, and
the other two are used by other people and stay at a remote location
that I only visit occasionally. I would like nothing more than to
have Gentoo and only Gentoo on these
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:57 -0800, Grant wrote:
1. I'm traveling and need to connect my laptop to strange Internet
connections that (with Linux) require exotic configs.
Well, I share this worry. I haven't yet run into anyplace wired or
wireless that Gentoo couldn't
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo
easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later
re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them
in a particular directory.
What I do is burn the latest service
Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo
easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later
re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them
in a particular directory.
hmmm... I wonder what this is, then?
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been running all of this over in my head, and I thought I'd get
your guys' advice. From what I've read, dual booting XP with Linux is
a real hassle. I could use 98SE instead, but it's really not as
sweet.
No problem at all. Install XP first, then
Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo
easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later
re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them
in a particular directory.
Windows XP tends to be picky and like to be loaded on the Primary
master and
A. Khattri wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo
easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later
re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them
in a particular directory.
What I do is
A. Khattri wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Richard Fish wrote:
Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo
easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later
re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them
in a particular directory.
What I do is
James Hiscock wrote:
Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo
easybut there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later
re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them
in a particular directory.
hmmm... I wonder what this is, then?
booting XP with Linux is
a real hassle. I could use 98SE instead, but it's
Dual booting XP and linux is a breeze especially with
lilo. Edit lilo.conf as if it _doesn't_ know about XP.
Run lilo.
Then mount a floppy formatted vfat and become root,
then:
dd if=/dev/wherever_linux_boots_from
maxim wexler wrote:
booting XP with Linux is
a real hassle. I could use 98SE instead, but it's
Dual booting XP and linux is a breeze especially with
lilo. Edit lilo.conf as if it _doesn't_ know about XP.
Run lilo.
Then mount a floppy formatted vfat and become root,
then:
dd
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