Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!umd5!uflorida!novavax!hcx1!rickd From: rickd@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Net Bios Available? Message-ID: <94300005@hcx1> Date: 27 Jun 88 20:19:00 GMT Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #N:hcx1:94300005:000:952 Nf-From: hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM!rickd Jun 27 16:19:00 1988 Pardon me if this is naive question; LANs, and _especially_ IBM PC's are not my forte'. The question: are there any commercial realizations of the Net Bios Protocol (currently, I hear, at the RFC phase -- Request for Comment)? Net Bios is supposed to be some sort of magic that allows networked users to access a common file or DBMS with record level locking. I suppose since it's IBM-targeted that it's not layered on TCP/IP over Ethernet but some other combination. What is/would be the physical and link layers? Thanks for any info you can share, even just a pointer to somewhere else. These questions caught me completely flat-footed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Davis | Written on my own behalf. Harris Computer Systems | 2101 W. Cypress Creek Rd | "Did Adam have a belly-button?" Ft. Lauderdale 33309 | (305) 973-5132 |