Does SAMBA support the NetBIOS API?

[kielan]

Hi all,

I work on a legacy retail system, which currently runs on Windows NT. The product has it's own Inter Process Communication package, which was written back in the early 90's. This package uses the NetBIOS API to handle communication between nodes on the network. This works fine for Windows NT, using NetBIOS over NetBEUI, or NetBIOS over TCP/IP.

We would like to port our system to run under Linux,and I am currently evaluating the work required to do this. I can see that SAMBA provides file and print sharing using NetBIOS over TCP/IP, but I can't find any reference to the NetBIOS API.

Can anyone tell me if SAMBA provide the NetBIOS API functions (e.g. NetBiosOpen, NetBiosSubmit) ?

Thanks,
Kielan.

[Hayl]

your best bet while waiting for (hopefully) someone who knows the answer is to read through the stuff on the samba web site.

http://ca.samba.org/samba/docs/

[kielan]

Thanks for the reply Hayl.

I have already searched the SAMBA web-site for this information, but I could not find any relevant info. This probably means that the API is not supported, but I am trying to be optimistic!

[Hayl]

ya. i took a brief look as well and didn't see anything.

:(