[BC] "Jealous" equipment

[Harold Hallikainen]

>  Yes, with two small caveats.
>
>  Micro$oft ( as one would expect ) doesn't fully comply with the NetBIOS
>  standard, as they have appropriated part of the name space ( the last
>  character typically ) as a "suffix" to a shortened name space.
>  ( M$ has this thing with suffixes and name extensions that no one else
>  seems to have a problem with )
>
>  NetBIOS is a alternative standard that has been adapted to run over
>  TCP, but does not require TCP. It can run happily over IPX, token-ring,
>  and a few others.
>  NetBEUI is an expansion and adaptation of NetBIOS, also co-opted
>  by Micro$oft to mean something completely different than what
>  it really was.
>  SO, be careful with how *you* implement NetBIOS, and all should be well.

Thanks! I'm doing all this with the Microchip TCP/IP stack
(http://www.microchip.com/tcpip). So far on NETBIOS, it seems to work with
WinXP (using both FireFox and IE as browsers). Mac OSX doesn't seem to
know what to do with it, nor does Fedora 10. That testing, though, was
merely typing the name in the browser URL space and seeing what happened.

Harold

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