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From: lynch@isi-hobgoblin.ARPA (Dan Lynch)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Netbios and TCP/IP
Message-ID: <1186@isi-hobgoblin.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 12:25:36 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 12:25:36 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Apr-86 04:03:53 EST
Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute
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Tthere now exists an implementation of the Netbios interface
that runs on top of TCP/IP for the IBM PC family.  It comes from 
Excelan and also has the standard socket library interface so that
one can run old applications and new Netbios based
applications.  One slick application of this is to have your 
D: device mapped to a shared disk via Netbios commands and then
run FTP tom get a file from someplace in the universe of TCP land
and the file actually ends up on the shared D: disk automagically.
Tthe user never sees the fact that the file comes into the local PC
(over the Etheernet) and then back out the Ethernet to the real place
the disk is located via Netbios support software.  I have seen this puppy run
and it is very real.  Looks like a way to merge old (and reliable)
technology with new trends.  Costs about a kilobuck including 
Excelan's smart Ethernet interface board.