Monthly Archives: October 2024

Programming NetBIOS on OS/2

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Michal Necasek

Recently I spent some time trying to understand a piece of networking code, and it turned out to be far more difficult than it should have been. The code in question is the NetBIOS interface of C-Kermit and was originally … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Documentation, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, OS/2 | 12 Comments

OS/2 TCPBEUI Name Resolution

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Michal Necasek

Sometimes I have the following problem to deal with: An OS/2 system uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (aka TCPBEUI) and should communicate with a SMB server (likewise using TCPBEUI) on a different subnet. This does not work on OS/2 out of … Continue reading →

Posted in IBM, Networking, OS/2, TCP/IP | 49 Comments