From Newsgroup: comp.os.os2.misc
On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 13:39:18 UTC+1, Marcel Mueller wrote:
Am 25.09.2018 um 22:49 schrieb Grant Taylor:
Do you have any thoughts, or knee jerk reactions, to having OS/2 connect to the NAS over NetBIOS instead of TCP/IP?
This is probably impossible since you will not find even one NAS device
that supports NETBEUI.
Samba never supported it, so any Linux based solution is out. Microsoft finally dropped Netbios with WinXP/W2k3 (although the NT4 driver still
works when manually installed) and there is probably no existing NAS
that uses OS/2 WarpServer. ;-)
It might be possible to
segregate older less secure clients to NetBIOS on the LAN.
A firewall would do the same job even better.
Furthermore there are a few tricks at lower level to separate devices in
a network. E.g. you might use 192.168.1.0/25 for your ordinary LAN
devices. The OS/2 client could use 192.168.1.128/25, impossible to communicate with the others at TCP level. And the only server that
should communicate with OS/2 gets 192.168.1.0/24 which includes both networks. You only have to take care of the broadcast address.
Marcel
WinXP *does* support the NETBEUI protocol layer, you just have to dig it out of the Extras folder on the Installation CD. I use it on my home LAN, which incorporates OS/2 servers, Win 7 Pro clients/servers and WinXP client/servers, plus a Buffalo NAS server.
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