Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!VAX.FTP.COM!jbvb From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: OS/2 Lan Man won't boot! Message-ID: <8809191408.AA08425@vax.ftp.com> Date: 19 Sep 88 14:08:28 GMT References: <8809121518.aa28736@Louie.UDEL.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 7 I can't say why 3Com's stuff fails, but as far as I know, even once it starts to work, it uses an XNS-based encapsulation for the SMB packets, which won't interoperate with RFC-conforming NETBIOS-over-TCP/IP (FTP S/W, Bridge, Excelan, et al). James VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.