wine users - Apr 2008 - Wine and NetBEUI

Hello,

A client of mine has this ancient software called VideoPrinter (working on
Win98) and an ancient hardware that connects to the PC through both LAN cable
and serial (COM) cable. I decided to give this software a try with wine 0.9.60
running on Slackware 12, kernel 2.6.23.4. The software installs without problems
and after adding the appropriate registry keys the COM is recognized. But the
software complains that it cannot find a NetBEUI-enabled network interface, and
there is indeed none. I googled around for a while, searching for a clue how to
enable NetBEUI support for linux, but the information in links was vague and
rather old. Large amount of links explained that Samba's NetBIOS
encapsulates NetBEUI frames over TCP/IP etc; but I was unable to find how to
bind a NetBEUI protocol ot a NIC so that the application on wine can make use of
it. So I am aware that the problem (at this stage) is probably not wine related
yet, but I was hoping that someone with enough knowledge could shed some light
on this problem. And if there is a way to bind NetBEUI to the network interface,
do I need some special wine tweaking to get the software running?

Thank you for your time.

Plamen

As an update - I found out that Linux actually does not support NetBEUI but
TCPBEUI through Samba, and so it seems that this machine will continue to run
Windows, which is a shame, because the application otherwise works without
problems.

Well, I guess I'm on my own again, thanks for stopping by anyway.

Plamen

Linux does not support any form of BEUI at all.  Linux supports NetBios.

Note NetBEUI is a dead protocol.  There is a security flaw in it.   NetBEUI
cannot tell the difference between a locally sent packet/RPC command and a
remote one.   So even keeping a old computer running to operate that is still a
security risk.

You could be looking to altering wine to lie that NETBEUI is there and redirect
up threw tcp/ip and netbios.

Lot more details are needed to work out what kind of lieing could be used.