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On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:39:36, James Knott 
<the.lights.are.on.but.no.one.is@home.com> wrote:

> > > Win2K has a firewall so you might be surprised.
> > > If you use Netbios it is not routable outside your local network.
> > 
> > Then how do Win2K users share resources across a router?  NetBIOS isn't
> > routeable.
> 
> NetBIOS/NetBEUI is not routable.  NetBIOS/IP is.  OS/2 & Windows support
> both.

I'm running "OS/2 NetBIOS over TCP/IP" (aka TCPBEUI) right now -- I need
it for one remote box, all the other boxes are local and can use plain 
NetBIOS -- and have a TCPBEUI tips page:
http://asavage.fdns.net/OS2/TCPBEUI/TCPBEUI.html

Mike T. said that plain NetBIOS isn't routeable outside the local LAN.  
But it is, using TCP/IP as a transport, and Win9x makes it absurdly easy
to do this (I don't know about W2k/NT5), creating the potential for a 
large hackers hole into your data by making local NetBIOS resources 
available to the world.  The beginning of this thread was Raqueteer 
wondering why a username/password combo was necessary to be defined on 
both boxes and to match, and I said, "because you want it that way" :). 

That's why I mentioned Gibson Research's excellent port tester:
https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
and press the "Test my Shields" and "Probe my Ports" buttons.

-- 
Regards,
Al S.

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