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SUBJECT : Two Netbios Problems
DATE : 6/11/90
FYI # : 061190sc
OS VERSION : All
REVISION :
SHELL VERSION :
PROBLEM : Certain NetBIOS applications could hang
the workstation under heavy I/O operations. The following items
were common to the customers we have worked with:
1. Use of Novell NetWare.
2. Use of Novell NetBIOS.
3. Use of some type of application written for NetBIOS.
4. Use of Soloman database server application.
SOLUTION : The problem was stack size. The database
server application did not have a stack size large enough to
handle things properly. The vendor is going to adjust the stack
size appropriately.
PROBLEM : Customers have expressed a need for the
ability to use more than the number of names currently allowed
by NetBIOS.
SOLUTION : NetBIOS originally allowed only sixteen
names to be defined in a local name table. In rev C., the size
of the local name table was changed to accomodate up to
twenty-six names. Now, customers are wanting the ability to have
more names (in some cases they want to have 100 names). Since the
size of the name table is determined by the number of names
allowed in the table, and thus the amount of memory to be used
for this table, we decided that we would increase the number of names
from sixteen to twenty-six.
As an enhancement to some future release of NetBIOS, the size of the
local name table will be user configurable by the use of a parameter
in the SHELL.CFG file (NETBIOS NAMES = X, where X = the number of names
desired). The maximum and default values for this parameter have not been
set.
YOUR NAME AND DEPT. : Steve Cruser - PSE
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(XX) This information was verified verbally.
( ) This information was verified in the lab.
( ) This information was verified on site.