Re: Samba's protocals (was 3 different OS)

[Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, guenther+openbsd-misc@sendmail.com wrote:

>  SMB is a protocol for file-sharing, printer-sharing, washing dishes and
>  	everything else MS thought to throw into it.  It was originally
>  	implemented as a service on top of NetBIOS.

And, with the introduction of Windows 2000, uses TCP/UDP 445.

With it, you don't actually need to run NetBIOS.

See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q204279 for
further details.


-- 
Juha Saarinen