[BC] "Jealous" equipment

[Cowboy]

On Friday 13 February 2009 12:44 pm, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

>  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.

 TCP predates IBM NetBIOS by a decade or so, as such *nix ( on which
 both Linux and Mac OS-X are based ) had little need to implement it
 at all.
 These days is mostly done through SMB tools, and M$ compatibility stuff.
 ( though NetBIOS predates M$ by several years )
 If there's a Samba server on the network to handle the name resolution
 for *nix clients, it ought to work.

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Cowboy