samba - Aug 2003 - Using samba without NetBIOS

Hello!

I'm trying to get Samba to use the IPX protocol (or something) instead
of NetBIOS (SMB), unfortunately without success. The Windows 2000
Professional computers in my network has NetBIOS disabled because of
security issues; instead the sharing is bound to IPX. Is there any way
to make samba use another protocol?

I've googled but haven't found anything. I'm sorry if this is a
common
question.

Thanks in advance!
Sincerely,
Peter Edstrom

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Peter Edstrom wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to get Samba to use the IPX protocol (or something) instead
> of NetBIOS (SMB), unfortunately without success. The Windows 2000
> Professional computers in my network has NetBIOS disabled because of
> security issues; instead the sharing is bound to IPX. Is there any way
> to make samba use another protocol?
No. Samba can run only SMB over TCP/IP. Samba can run SMB with, or without
NetBIOS. NetBIOS over TCP/IP uses port 139, without NetBIOS port 445 is
used.

Samba does NOT allow SMB over IPX.
>
> I've googled but haven't found anything. I'm sorry if this is a
common
> question.
I hope this answer is sufficient.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org

Hmm.. I've figured out that starting smbd with the argument '-p 445'
might do the work. However, things aren't going so well as I expected.
Is there anything else that I have to do?

/Peter