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From: syackey@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve Yackey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Query on NetBIOS on TCP/IP
Message-ID: <424@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 89 12:56:50 GMT
References: <813@maxim.erbe.se> <8909121318.AA04771@vax.ftp.com> <7336@dmshq.mn.org>
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In article <7336@dmshq.mn.org> pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Bob Monio) writes:
>In article <8909121318.AA04771@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) writes:
>>Unix SMB servers that I know of: Syntax Corp (Kent, WA), SCO
>>Xenix-Net, NCR has one for the Tower.  Both of these have support for
>>RFC 1001/1002 NETBIOS over TCP/IP (although both vendors also offer
>>products that use other transport layers below NETBIOS/SMB).
>
>Which SMB product are you refering to in NCR's case, James?  Other
>than Towernet, the only other one that I was aware of Syntax's
>product.  Is there another that you are referring to or are you
>speaking of Towernet?

>Thanks.  
>
>  -Bob


 The SMB file server for the Tower is called Tower File Server (TFS). TFS
 allows the Tower to be a server and/or client and supports both the
 core and extended file sharing dialects of the SMB protocol. TFS is
 independent of the underlying transport(s). TFS can utilize the XNS protocol
 suite (provided by, but a small portion of, Towernet), Netbios formats and
 protocols (provided by, but a small portion of, Tower Netbios) or TCP
 (provided by, but a small portion of, Tower WIN/TCP). The XNS version is
 fully compatible with vanilla NET/1 from Ungermann-Bass, 3+ Share from
 3-Com and/or PC File Server (the NCR marketed PC side). The Netbios version
 if fully compatible with IBM products, PC LAN Program, and NCR PC LAN
 program. The TCP version can utilize the TCP transport provided by, for
 example, FTP software, and the MS-Net stuff included with PC File Server.
 TFS serves/consumes from multiple PC vendor products (UB, 3Com, NCR, IBM)
 using multiple transport protocols (XNS, Netbios), concurrently.


 yackman