Has anybody been able to get NetBIOS working with Windows/XP???

[PaulSM]

Hi -

We've got a legacy system that communicates over LanTastic to DOS and Win9x
PCs. We use LanTastic file shares; we also use NetBIOS connections and
datagrams.

Our old, 16-bit legacy code uses DOS interrupts. We're trying to adapt our
new, 32-bit code to use the "Netbios()" API that comes with the Microsoft
Platform SDK. It works just fine if we execute under Win9x and LanTastic
8.01 ... and the *same* executables *fail* (or hang) if we execute under
Windows/XP?

Does anybody out there have any experience using the Microsoft Netbios API
under Windows/XP?

Or can anybody suggest an alternative way of communicating over LanTastic
(to legacy clients) from Windows/XP?

Thank you very much in advance .. Paul Santa Maria

 

[Al Dykes]

Hi -

We've got a legacy system that communicates over LanTastic to DOS and Win9x
PCs. We use LanTastic file shares; we also use NetBIOS connections and
datagrams.

Our old, 16-bit legacy code uses DOS interrupts. We're trying to adapt our
new, 32-bit code to use the "Netbios()" API that comes with the Microsoft
Platform SDK. It works just fine if we execute under Win9x and LanTastic
8.01 ... and the *same* executables *fail* (or hang) if we execute under
Windows/XP?

Does anybody out there have any experience using the Microsoft Netbios API
under Windows/XP?

Or can anybody suggest an alternative way of communicating over LanTastic
(to legacy clients) from Windows/XP?

Thank you very much in advance .. Paul Santa Maria

With XP, microsoft has dropped Netbios (realy Netbeui) as an available
option during setup, but they put the setup files in a "extras" filder
on the CD.

Go to the MS Knowledgebase and search for XP netbeui installation, or
someting like that.

From memory; search your CD for a file called netbeui.inf. I think you
right mouse click on that and select "install".