Samba related question.

Jason jason at kernbuilt.com
Wed Feb 18 11:23:38 EST 2004


I had to look this up and I was an English major 8).

FWIW

Pedantic:
Marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and
especially its trivial aspects: a pedantic writing style; an academic
insistence on precision; a bookish vocabulary; donnish refinement of speech;
scholastic and excessively subtle reasoning.



>  Just to be *really* pedantic:

>  NetBIOS is the whole suite of protocols.  WINS is a method for
centralized
>registration of names in NetBIOS.  In fact, the *official* name for WINS is
>"NetBIOS Name Service", or NBNS.  Microsoft, of course, had to make up
their
>own name.  "Broadcast" is the other major form of name resolution under
>NetBIOS.


Jason Kern

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