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:

Do not set the first byte to zero (0x00).
Do not set the first byte to an asterisk, except to designate a broadcast datagram destination. For more information on broadcast datagrams, see ``Sending NetBIOS broadcast datagrams''.
Do not start with a company name or trademark.
Do not set the last byte in the range of hexadecimal 0x00 - 0x1F inclusive (the non-printing ASCII characters).