[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] NETBIOS Source or Spec

gery@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gery Dueck) (10/01/90)

Does anyone know where I can acquire the source for NETBIOS?

I have built a system to serve disk and other facilities from VMS to
PCs based on Western Digital's WD8003 ethernet card.  The system also
provides a simple mechanism for allowing other application software to
be layered on my WD8003 driver.  The mechanism has been tested with
PC/IP by simply replacing the bottom layer of CMU's software with calls
to my driver and providing an interrupt driven callback to CMU's old
interrupt handler.

I would like to do the same thing with NETBIOS, that is, layer it on my
driver. I don't know if NETBIOS is driver independent, as the only
implementation I have access to is Western Digital's NETBIOS emulator
which is integrated with their ethernet driver (and I don't have the
source).

It may be that all implementations of NETBIOS in existence are
proprietary and that my request will have to go unanswered.  In that
case, I will consider implementing from scratch, provided I can acquire
a specification of NETBIOS.

So, my requests, in order of preference, are:
   1) source for NETBIOS 
   2) NETBIOS to MAC interface specification
   3) complete NETBIOS specification.

Thanks - Gery

davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (10/02/90)

  This discussion does not relate to binaries in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.
Please move the discussion to comp.sys.ibm.pc, where it is appropriate
and will get a better readership.

  This is not a flame, it is a polite request from the moderator of
c.b.i.p. Let's try to keep c.b.i.p.d on topic.

	Thanks.
-- 
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tcs@router.jhuapl.edu (10/02/90)

RE: Source/Spec for NetBIOS

I've been working on a graphic game to work through NetBIOS. As such, I picked
up a book that has been of great help called "The C Programmers Guide to 
NetBIOS". I believe it's a SAMS book but I don't have all the specifics on
author and where you can get it. I have seen it in Computer Languages and Dr.
Dobbs magazines and occasionally in PC Magazine.

Carl Schelin
tcs@router.jhuapl.edu