samba-2.2.6

[m.w.chang]

it would be nice if samba team makes NETBIOS work over IPX. anyway, IPX 
is going to be history with all these gigabit networks.

Aaron Grewell wrote:
> If all your machines are using WINS then the broadcasting should be
> greatly reduced, though I doubt it can be completely eliminated without
> turning off netbios and using dns names for everything.  Even then, you
> would have to have W2K or higher on the workstations and turn off
> NetBIOS support.  All the older stuff still broadcasts if it doesn't
> immediately find what it wants.  I agree, for PnP networking IPX was the
> bomb.  Sadly, it doesn't have the robustness of TCP/IP.  Oh well.

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