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A new version of NETBIOS.SYS has been written for workstations
running OS/2 and the NetWare Requester for OS/2. This new
NETBIOS.SYS corrects these problems:
1) There were some problems with accessing application memory
and semaphores in the NetBIOS emulator while servicing
interrupts. This resulted in a system trap under some
circumstances, usually when swapping was occurring. This
revision fixes the problems.
2) The OS/2 specification for NetBIOS says that permanent names
are not allowed when NetBIOS is opened in "regular mode".
Microsoft has since eliminated the restriction in LAN Manager,
but has not published the change. The problem was discovered
while testing Lotus Notes. This new verison now allows
unrestricted use of permanent names, which solved the problem.
3) It was not possible to get more than 6 NetBIOS sessions
without using the Adapter Reset call. The reason for this is
that specifying the number of sessions with "Sessions Count = n"
in NET.CFG changed only the size of the internal session table
and buffers, but didn't change the number of sessions available.
In order to change the number of sessions available, you had to
perform an adapter reset. The work-around for this has been the
NBRESET.EXE, which performs the adapter reset. This new version
of NetBIOS.SYS corrects this problem so that NBRESET.EXE no
longer needs to be run in order to get more than 6 NetBIOS
sessions. Of course, you must still specify Sessions Count = n
(default 32, maximum 128) in your NET.CFG file.