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Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need?

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Doug Bissett wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:42:35 UTC, Paul Ratcliffe
> <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> wrote:
>
> ...snip...
>
>> It is very little effort to install this stuff on Windows and make
>> it work. Nothing like what you imply anyway - "LOT of messing" and
>> "convince". Yet again you seem not to know what you're talking
>> about. I, on the other hand, have had this setup on over 80
>> machines and do know.
>
> It is easy, with the windows PRO versions. It is not so easy with
> the lesser windows versions (XP and up).

Shit, is that poor! Doug, have you ever considered to simply shut up?
Please let those people who know about what they're talking speak
here. You're simply spreading mystics. Some of them are correct, other
are totally wrong. That style is of no use for other newsgroup
readers.

> You need to convince them to use the older methods to log on, or
> they try to use the newer methods, which OS/2 doesn't know about.
> Then, you need to convince them to allow the old logon method so
> that OS/2 can log onto windows. It works, but it is MESSY. After you
> get to Win7, it is pretty well impossible to get OS/2 NETBIOS over
> TCPIP, to cooperate. NETBIOS will probably still work, because it
> doesn't use the windows logon crap, but I am not sure if the old
> NETBIOS will even install on win7, I haven't tried it.
>
> It makes more sense to convert to SAMBA in cases like that anyway.
> You gain the ability to handle files that are larger than 2 GB, and
> windows doesn't need to use the older logon methods, although I saw
> something recently, that implied that win8 has invented yet another
> logon method, just to be sure that nothing else is compatible.
>
> ...snip...
>
>> Do you not know the difference between "good" and "well"? "It works
>> well" is proper English.
>
> Only in England. Where I live, "well" implies working without flaws.
> "Good" implies that there are some problems (and there are). English
> has progressed well beyond what you learned in school. Live with it.
>
>> IFSs load into Kernel memory space. You ignored that the last time
>> I told you, but you blithely repeat your stock phrases.
>
> I ignore a lot of what you say, since a lot of it isn't worth
> reading.
>
> All I know, is that I gained a large chunk of shared memory space,
> when I REMed the HPFS.IFS line in CONFIG.SYS. Perhaps it was the
> cache that freed up some (or all) of it. In any case, it does free
> shared memory space when you REM IFS lines in CONFIG.SYS. I don't
> really care why.

Sorry for the full quoting. I'm speakless.

-- 
Andreas Schnellbacher

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  Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2013-02-15 04:10 +0000
    Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2013-02-15 09:42 +0000
      Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2013-02-15 23:56 +0000
        Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? Andreas Schnellbacher <aschn@despammed.com> - 2013-02-16 01:16 +0100
        Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> - 2013-03-03 13:22 +0000
          Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? "Pete" <khadhargo@sbc...nospam.-.global.net> - 2013-03-03 12:28 -0600
            Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2013-03-03 19:34 -0800
          Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2013-03-04 02:24 +0000
      Re: NetBIOS or NetBIOS over TCP/IP in today's world...any need? "Doug Bissett" <dougb007!SPAM@telus.net> - 2013-03-06 20:09 +0000
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