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Developing applications over NetBIOS using XTI

NetBIOS names and addresses

The definition (in /usr/include/xti.h) of a NetBIOS transport address is:

   struct nb_addr {
   	char    nb_type;
   	char    nb_name[NB_NAMELEN];
   };
The value of nb_type is either NB_UNIQUE or NB_GROUP, and the value of NB_NAMELEN is 16. The constants NB_UNIQUE, NB_GROUP, and NB_NAMELEN (NetBIOS name length) are defined in xti.h.

A NetBIOS name consists of 16 alphanumeric bytes. This address identifies a client or server process to the LAN. When specifying NetBIOS names:



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