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From: backman@FTP.COM (Larry Backman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: LAN Manager
Message-ID: <9104171254.AA25849@ftp.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 12:54:31 GMT
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 >> 
 >> 
 >> We would like to use Lan Manager on a TCP/IP network that
 >> includes IProuters.
 >> Due to the fact that Lan Manager is using netbios, this
 >> configuration seems to be impossible.
 >> 
 >> There have been some rumours about some "netbios routers"
 >> applications on either DOS/OS2 or Unix that can solve
 >> this problem.
 >> 
 >> Does anyone know about this ?
 >> 
 >> Brit Jensen, Norsk Data
 >> 
 >> 
Our OS/2 TCP Netbios has a hack built into it that if a certain switch
(-nfilename I think) is set, it searchs that file for a name/internet address
combination whenever NETBIOS name queries fail.  Thus if your file
had:

	joe	silly.foo.com
	tom	128.127.44.33

and you tried a

	net use q: \\joe\public

when the name query for joe failed on your local net; the netbios would
then go off to silly.foo.com via DNS lookups & look there.


Does this help you?



				Larry Backman
				backman@ftp.com